Journal of Melitology Bee Biology, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics The latest buzz in bee biology No. 7, pp. 1–5 6 March 2013 Copyright © V.S. Rathor, C. Rasmussen, & M.S. Saini. Creative Commons Atribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). ISSN 2325-4467 New record of the stingless bee Tetragonula gressiti from India (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) Vikram S. Rathor 1 , Claus Rasmussen 2 , & Malkiat S. Saini 1 Abstract. Tetragonula gressiti (Sakagami, 1978), currently known from southern Vietnam, is here reported for the frst time from dense forests in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, India. This new record is about 2000 km northwest of the type locality of T. gressiti in Vietnam and increases to seven the number of stingless bees known in India. Taxonomic comments on T. gressiti are also provided. 1 Department of Zoology & Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala-147002, India (vikramrathor1412@gmail.com). 2 Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Den- mark (alrunen@yahoo.com). INTRODUCTION Six named species of stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini), belong- ing to three genera, have been reported from India (Sakagami, 1978; Rasmussen, 2008; Rasmussen & Cameron, 2007, 2010): Lepidotrigona arcifera (Cockerell), Lisotrigona cacciae (Nurse), L. mohandasi Jobiraj & Narendran, Tetragonula af. laeviceps (Smith), T. benga- lensis (Cameron), and T. rufcornis (Smith). Tetragonula Moure is the single largest and most widespread genus of stingless bees in the Indo-Malayan/Australasian region. It has been reported from India to the Solomon and Caroline Islands and contains about 32 species (Rasmussen, 2008). Sakagami (1978) revised the genus from continental Asia and described and recorded T. gressiti (Sakagami) from Vietnam, which we here report for the frst time from India, thus raising the number of stingless bees known from India to seven species. Specimens examined in this study were collected during the day time while sweeping fowers in dense forests of Hunli and Pashighat of Arunachal Pradesh, India. The workers were collected at 550 and 1325 m a.s.l. Terminology and measurements follow Camargo & Pedro (2009) and Sakagami (1978). Measurements were taken with BRIEF COMMUNICATION