Published August 29, 2024 | Version v1
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Andrena (Plastandrena) mongolica Morawitz 1880

  • 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

25. Andrena (Plastandrena) mongolica Morawitz, 1880 *

Andrena mongolica Morawitz, 1880: 360, ♀ [China, ZISP, examined by photograph].

Material examined

INDIA 1 ♂; West Himalaya, Khalatse [Khalsi], Kashmir [Ladakh]; 4000–5000 m a.s.l.; 6 May 1939; K. Warncke det.; OÖLM.

Remarks

Members of the subgenus Plastandrena Hedicke, 1933 are fiendishly difficult to identify due to variable morphology without clear and consistent ‘break points’ between species and lack of resolution using genetic barcoding (e.g., Wood 2023b). Further study using more powerful genetic techniques (e.g., including nuclear DNA) is required, but A. mongolica can be reported from India based on a male specimen presenting the characteristic genital capsule of this species.

Distribution

Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, China, India * (Ladakh) (Astafurova et al. 2021).

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 pages 37-38, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.948.2637, http://zenodo.org/record/13511901

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
OOLM
Event date
1939-05-06
Verbatim event date
1939-05-06
Scientific name authorship
Morawitz
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Andrenidae
Genus
Andrena
Species
mongolica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Andrena (Plastandrena) mongolica Morawitz, 1880 sec. Gautam, Uniyal & Wood, 2024

References

  • Morawitz F. 1880. Ein Beitrag zur Bienen-Fauna Mittel-Asiens. Bulletin de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg 26: 337 - 389.
  • 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.
  • Wood T. J. 2023 b. The genus Andrena Fabricius, 1775 in the Iberian Peninsula (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96: 241 - 484. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / jhr. 96.101873
  • Astafurova Y. A., Proshchalykin M. Y., Sidorov D. A. & Osytshnjuk A. Z. 2021. The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution IV. Family Andrenidae, genus Andrena Fabricius, 1775, species described by F. Morawitz. Zootaxa 5037: 1 - 78. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5037.1.1