Colletes floralis Eversmann, 1852

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 : 1728-1729

Colletes floralis Eversmann, 1852

( Figures 2 (A–D), 7(A‒B))

Colletes floralis Eversmann, 1852: 46

Colletes montana Morawitz, 1876: 262

Colletes suecica Aurivillius, 1903: 214–215

Colletes kudiensis Cockerell, 1924: 594

Colletes yasumatsui Hirashima and Ikudome, 1989: 109

Material examined

1 ♀, INDIA, Ladakh , Kargil, 34.5531°N, 76.1393°E, 15 June 1973, sweep net, Gupta – coll . NZC; 3 ♂, INDIA, Ladakh , Kargil, 34.5531°N, 76.1393°E, 15 June 1973, sweep net, Girish – coll . NZC; 3 ♂, INDIA, Ladakh , Leh, Sakti, 33.9917°N, 77.8060°E, 11 June 2022, sweep net on Brassica sp ., S. Angmo – coll.; 1 ♂, INDIA, Ladakh , Leh, DIHAR, 34.1367°N, 77.5717°E, sweep net on Brassica sp ., 22 July 2022, S. Angmo – coll.

Molecular characterisation

DNA barcode sequences unambiguously assigned specimens to the species level in BOLD, and C. floralis similarity was 98.62%. The DNA amplicon sequences have been deposited in GenBank under the accession numbers:

Sample COL02 C.floralis : Accession no.–OR898856

Sample COL03 C.floralis : Accession no.–OR898857

Sample COL04 C.floralis : Accession no.–OR898858

Sample COL05 C.floralis : Accession no.–OR898859

Floral association

Brassica rapa ( Brassicaceae ), Tamarix sp. ( Tamaricaceae ) ( Ferrari et al. 2021); Compositae gen. et sp. ( Asteraceae ), Brassica chinensis ( Brassicaceae ) ( Niu et al. 2014).

Distribution

India: Ladakh (2500m above msl) (Kuhlmann 2003)

Worldwide: Distributed throughout the Palaearctic region across Europe, West and Central Asia upto Japan in the Far East ( Ferrari et al. 2021).

Figures

Figure 2. (A–D) Colletes floralis Eversmann, male: (A) habitus, lateral view (scale bar: 1 mm); (B) head, frontal view (scale bar: 1 mm); (C) sternum 7 (scale bar: 0.5 mm); (D) genital capsule (scale bar: 0.5 mm). (E–H) C. sanctus Cockerell, male: E, habitus, lateral view (scale bar: 2 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).