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Andrena (Euandrena) communis Smith 1879

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttarakhand- 248001, India.
  • 2. Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttarakhand- 248001, India. & Graphic Era (Deemed to be University) Clement Town Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
  • 3. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, the Netherlands.

Description

7. Andrena (Euandrena) communis Smith, 1879

Andrena communis Smith, 1879: 50, ♀ [India: Uttarakhand, NHMUK, examined].

Andrena maligna Cameron 1897: 114, ♂ [India: Uttarakhand, OUMNH, not examined].

Listed by

Smith (1878); Bingham (1897); Cameron (1897); Meena & Dey (2019); Ascher & Pickering (2023).

Material examined

INDIA • 1 ♀; Masuri [= Mussoorie]; 7000 ft a.s.l.; NHMUK (holotype of A. communis) • 1 ♀; Uttarakhand, Kanda Village; 30.4987° N, 79.1457° E; 1920 m a.s.l.; 7 Apr. 2022; R.K. Gautam leg.; WII • 1 ♀; Uttarakhand, Trijuginarayan; 30.6365° N, 78.9688° E; 2418 m a.s.l.; 2 Jun. 2022; R.K. Gautam leg.; WII • 1 ♂; Uttarakhand, Hudu; 30.5044° N, 79.1504° E; 1800 m a.s.l.; 19 Nov. 2019; R.K. Gautam leg.; WII.

PAKISTAN • 1 ♀; Azad Kashmir, Paras, Shogran; 25 May 2019; M. Kafka leg.; BOLD: WPATW979-23; TJWC • 1 ♀; Hazara, Kawai, Shogran; 14 May 1978; C. Holzschuh leg.; OÖLM.

Remarks

Smith (1879) described A. communis from Masuri [= Mussoorie] in Uttarakhand, and Cameron (1897) described A. maligna from Mussouri [= Mussoorie] as well. Cameron (1897: 114) wrote that his species could “hardly be the ♂ of A. communis ” but Bingham (1897: 443) nevertheless synonymised the two species, without any justification.The type material of A. maligna is in the Rothney Collection (OUMNH), but is not currently available for study. This synonymy is maintained pending further investigations, though it is plausible given that the two taxa share the same locus typicus. As discussed above, the specimen labelled as “ Andrena familiaris (Type) Sm.” in the NHMUK collection is considered to be the holotype of A. communis.

Distribution

India (Uttarakhand) and Pakistan *.

Notes

Published as part of Gautam, R. K., Uniyal, V. P. & Wood, Thomas J., 2024, A critical revision of the Andrena Fabricius, 1775 of India, with the description of two new species (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) from Uttarakhand, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 948 on page 24, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.948.2637, http://zenodo.org/record/13511901

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE87B4FFBAFF8A0ECD6BDCFDD6F984

Is part of
Journal article: 10.5852/ejt.2024.948.2637 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/13511901 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE7FFCCFFADFF9D0F396A02FF8EFF80 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/9985FD07-5280-41D9-B982-B175085AE5F8 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03DE87B4FFBAFF8A0ECD6BDCFDD6F984 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/240054347 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/302042/taxon/03DE87B4FFBAFF8A0ECD6BDCFDD6F984.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHMUK , OOLM , TJWC , WII
Material sample ID
WPATW979-23
Event date
1978-05-14 , 2019-05-25 , 2019-11-19 , 2022-04-07 , 2022-06-02
Verbatim event date
1978-05-14 , 2019-05-25 , 2019-11-19 , 2022-04-07 , 2022-06-02
Scientific name authorship
Smith
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Andrenidae
Genus
Andrena
Species
communis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Andrena (Euandrena) communis Smith, 1879 sec. Gautam, Uniyal & Wood, 2024

References

  • Smith F. 1879. Descriptions of new species of Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum: pp. 21 + 240. London.
  • Cameron P. 1897. Hymenoptera orientalia, or contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of the oriental zoological region. Part V. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society 41: 1 - 144.
  • Smith F. 1878. Hymenoptera. In: Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission, Based upon the Collections and Notes of the Late Ferdinand Stoliczka. By order of the Government of India. 1878 - 91: 1 - 22. Calcutta (government printing). https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 153243
  • Bingham C. T. 1897. Hymenoptera. - Vol. I. Wasps and Bees. British Fauna of India 1. Taylor and Francis, London. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 10364
  • Meena L. K. & Dey D. 2019. Annotated checklist of non- Apis bees of the genus Andrena (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) from India. Indian Journal of Entomology 81: 443 - 452 https: // doi. org / 10.5958 / 0974 - 8172.2019.00095.6
  • Ascher J. & Pickering J. 2023. Discover Life bee Species Guide and World Checklist (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Anthophila). Availbable from https: // www. discoverlife. org / mp / 20 q? guide = Apoidea _ species & flags = HAS [accessed 25 Jul. 2024].