Lipotriches exagens
Description
Lipotriches exagens (Walker, 1860) (Fig. 3C–D)
Andrena exagens Walker, 1860:305. Holotype ♂, Sri Lanka – BMNH.
Material examined. 1♂, India, Kerala, Thrissur, Chengaloor, near Kurumali River (10°23'36.0744"N, 76°18'16.4376"E), 11.vii.2024, Swept, leg.: CSA; 3♀♀, Vilangan Kunnu hillock (10°33'24.3108"N, 76°10'6.7296"E), 30.i.2023, Swept, leg.: CSA; 3♀♀, Kattoor Kole wetland (10°21'59.3892"N, 76°9'48.4236"E), 21.vi.2023, Swept, leg.: AVV.
Brief diagnosis. ♂, Small species with length 6 mm or less, scutum smooth with spaced punctuations, metasoma orange-red and not pedunculated. Fourth sternite with two small elliptical depressions with pores. ♀, Body length, colour, pubescence, metasoma, scutum as in males.
Distribution in India. Goa, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu (Pauly, 2014; Pannure & Belavadi, 2017; Ascher & Pickering, 2025), Kerala (New record).
General distribution. Oriental – India, Sri Lanka (Ascher & Pickering, 2025).
Floral association. Poaceae (New record).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Event date
- 2023-01-30 , 2023-06-21 , 2024-07-11
- Verbatim event date
- 2023-01-30 , 2023-06-21 , 2024-07-11
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Halictidae
- Genus
- Lipotriches
- Species
- exagens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lipotriches exagens (Walker, 1860) sec. Athul, Vishnu, Prakash, Bijoy & Shaji, 2025
References
- Walker, F. (1860) Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon insects. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 3 (5), 304-311. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222936008697221
- Pauly, A. (2014) Les Abeilles des Graminees ou Lipotriches Gerstaecker, 1858, sensu stricto (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae: Nomiinae) de la Region Orientale. Belgian Journal of Entomology, 21, 1-94.
- 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.
- 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]