Colletes roborovskyi Friese, 1913

Sardar, Sayan, Angmo, Spalzin, Stobdan, Tsering, Chauhan, Archana & Rameshkumar, A., 2025, Bees of the genus Colletes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae) from Ladakh, India, with description of a new species, Journal of Natural History 59 (21 - 24), pp. 1725-1741 : 1732-1734

Colletes roborovskyi Friese, 1913

( Figure 4 (E–H))

Colletes roborovskyi Friese, 1913: 59

Material examined

1 ♂, INDIA, Ladakh, Leh, Phey , 34.1324°N, 77.4813°E, 27 July 2022, sweep net on Epilobium latifolium, S . Angmo – coll.

Molecular characterisation

The species identification ability of DNA sequences was evaluated using the BLAST method. Public sequence data was unavailable for C. roborovskyi in BOLD, but it matched with the reference sequence in NCBI with a percentage identity of 98.25%. The DNA amplicon sequence has been deposited in GenBank under the accession number:

Sample COL01 C.roborovskyi : Accession no. – OR898855

Floral association. Epilobium latifolium ( Onagraceae ) (new record).

Distribution. India (new record): Ladakh (3200m above msl).

Worldwide: Azerbaijan, China (Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang), Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan ( Kuhlmann and Proshchalykin 2011; Niu et al. 2014).

Figures

Figure 4. (A–D) Colletes laevigena Noskiewicz, male: (A) habitus, lateral view (scale bar: 1 mm); (B) head, frontal view (scale bar: 1 mm); (C) sternum 7 (scale bar: 1 mm); (D) genital capsule (scale bar: 0.5 mm). (E–H) C. roborovskyi Friese, male: (E) habitus, lateral view (scale bar: 1 mm); (F) head, frontal view (scale bar: 1 mm); (G) sternum 7 (scale bar: 0.5 mm); (H) genital capsule (scale bar: 0.5 mm).