Colletes roborovskyi Friese 1913

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).