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Austronomia notiomorpha

Description

Austronomia notiomorpha (Hirashima 1978)

Nomia (Austronomia) notiomorpha Hirashima, 1978:100. Holotype ♂, Sri Lanka, Wildlife Soc. Bungalow, Hunwilagama, Wilpattu, Anu. District – USNM.

Distribution in India. Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, West Bengal (Pauly, 2009; Saini & Rathor, 2012; Pannure & Belavadi, 2017; Manjusha & Jobiraj, 2018; Prakash et al., 2020; Majumder et al., 2024; Ascher & Pickering, 2025).

General distribution. Oriental – India, Sri Lanka (Ascher & Pickering, 2025).

Floral association. Mesosphaerum suaveolens (Lamiaceae) (Karunaratne et al., 2005).

Notes

Published as part of Athul, Cherodath Sankar, Vishnu, Azhakath Viswambharan, Prakash, Anju Sara, Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan & Shaji, Edappilly Mathew, 2025, A checklist of Nomiinae (Hymenoptera, Halictidae) from Kerala, India: new distributional and floral association records, pp. 601-623 in Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11 (3) on page 604, DOI: 10.61186/jibs.11.3.601, http://zenodo.org/record/17024893

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM
Scientific name authorship
Hirashima
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Halictidae
Genus
Austronomia
Species
notiomorpha
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Austronomia notiomorpha (Hirashima, 1978) sec. Athul, Vishnu, Prakash, Bijoy & Shaji, 2025

References

  • Hirashima, Y. (1978) Some Asian species of Austronomia, a subgenus of Nomia, with descriptions of three new species from Sri Lanka (Hymenoptera, Halictidae). Esakia, 12, 89-101. https://doi.org/10.5109/2382
  • Pauly, A. (2009) Classification des Nomiinae de la Region Orientale, de Nouvelle-Guinee et des iles de l'Ocean Pacifique (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae). Bulletin de l'Institute Royal Des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 79, 151-229.
  • Saini, M. S. & Rathor, V. S. (2012) A species checklist of family Halictidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) along with keys to its subfamilies, genera & subgenera from India. International Journal of Environmental Sciences, 3 (1), 134-166.
  • Pannure, A. & Belavadi, V. V. (2017) An updated distributional checklist of Bees of the subfamily Nomiinae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) with new records from south India. Entomon, 42 (4), 311-328.
  • Manjusha, K. T. & Jobiraj, T. (2018) New record of Leuconomia brevipes from India with a checklist of Nominid bees (Apoidea: Halictidae; Nomiinae) from Kerala. Journal of Experimental Zoology India, 21 (2), 897-900.
  • Prakash, A. S., Jobiraj, T. & Bijoy, C. (2020) A checklist of bees (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Kerala. Entomon, 45 (3), 189-200. https://doi.org/10.33307/entomon.v45i3.550
  • Majumder, B., Nath, R., Kazmi, S. I., Senapati, S. K. & Rameshkumar, A. (2024) Checklist of Nomiinae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) from West Bengal, India with new records. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 10 (4), 703-717. https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.10.4.703
  • Ascher, J. S. & Pickering, J. (2025) Discover Life Bee Species Guide and World Checklist Website. https://www.discoverlife.org/%20 [Accessed 25 th September 2024]
  • Karunaratne, W., Edirisinghe, J. P. & Gunatilleke, C. V. S. (2005) Floral relationships of bees in selected areas of Sri Lanka. Ceylon Journal of Science, 34, 27-45.