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Lipotriches minutula
Description
Lipotriches minutula (Friese, 1909) (Fig. 3G)
Nomia minutula Friese, 1909:203. Lectotype ♂, Kalidupa Butan, 1902 – NMV.
Material examined. 2♂♂, India, Kerala, Thrissur, Kalashamala hillock (10°39'39.222"N, 76°5'27.0852"E), 4.x.2025, Swept, leg.: CSA.
Brief diagnosis. ♂, Body length 6–7 mm, sternite V having a pair of spiny tubercles on both sides, posterior tubercle being compound.
Distribution in India. Maharashtra Tamil Nadu (Ascher & Pickering, 2025; Pannure & Belavadi, 2017), Kerala (New record).
General distribution. Oriental – China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam (Ascher & Pickering, 2025).
Floral association. Unknown.
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 612, DOI: 10.61186/jibs.11.3.601, http://zenodo.org/record/17024893
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NMV , V
- Event date
- 2025-10-04
- Verbatim event date
- 2025-10-04
- Scientific name authorship
- Friese
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Halictidae
- Genus
- Lipotriches
- Species
- minutula
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lipotriches minutula (Friese, 1909) sec. Athul, Vishnu, Prakash, Bijoy & Shaji, 2025
References
- Friese, H. (1909) Die Bienenfauna von Neu-Guinea. Annales Historico Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 7, 179-288.
- 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]
- 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.