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Lipotriches torrida
Description
Lipotriches torrida (Smith, 1879) (Fig. 3J–K)
Andrena torrida Smith, 1879:50. Holotype ♀, Bombay – BMNH.
Material examined. 1♂ 1♀, India, Kerala, Thrissur, Christ College Campus (10°21'20.0088"N, 76°12' 47.0844"E), 4.xi.2021, Swept, leg.: ASP.
Brief diagnosis. ♂, Body length 10 mm. Ocelli raised and oriented in three directions, scutum smooth with sparse punctuation, posterior femora with subapical tooth below but not very pronounced, propodeum completely smooth without punctations, terminal sternites black, wings strongly smoky. ♀, Metasoma completely orange-red.
Distribution in India. Maharashtra (Pauly, 2009, 2014), Kerala (New record).
General distribution. Oriental (Restricted to India).
Floral association. Poaceae (New record).
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 613, DOI: 10.61186/jibs.11.3.601, http://zenodo.org/record/17024893
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Event date
- 2021-11-04
- Verbatim event date
- 2021-11-04
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Halictidae
- Genus
- Lipotriches
- Species
- torrida
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lipotriches torrida (Smith, 1879) sec. Athul, Vishnu, Prakash, Bijoy & Shaji, 2025
References
- Smith, F. (1879) Descriptions of new Species of Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Trustees of the British Museum, London, 1-240.
- 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.
- 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.