Eufriesea

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Eufriesea

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Apidae
Subfamily:	Apinae
Tribe:	Euglossini
Genus:	Eufriesea Cockerell, 1908

Diversity

> 60 species

Species

see text

Synonyms

Plusia
Euplusia
Eumorpha
Eufriesia

Eufriesea is a genus of euglossine bees. Like all orchid bees, they are restricted to the Neotropics.

They are of metallic or brown/black color and hairy.

1 Distribution
2 E. purpurata
3 Name
4 Species
5 Footnotes
6 References
7 Further reading
8 External links

[edit] Distribution

Eufriesea is the most widely distributed genus of euglossines. Specimens have been found from Mexico to central Argentina^[1].

[edit] E. purpurata

At least one of its species, Eufriesea purpurata from Brazil, has been shown to selectively collect large quantities of the insecticide DDT without any apparent adverse effects. Individual bees were observed to collect as much as 2 mg, which is in the percent range of body weight. The males of orchid bees are known to collect aromatic fragrances from certain kinds of orchids, and it is thought that they use these in territorial display and courtship, probably as precursors of their own pheromones. Some orchid bees have also been found to collect fragrances from rotten wood.

[edit] Name

The genus is named after entomologist Heinrich Friese.

[edit] Species

E. aeniventris (Mocsáry, 1896)
E. anisochlora (Kimsey, 1977)
E. aridicola (Moure, Neves, and Viana, 2001)
E. atlantica Nemésio, 2008
E. auriceps (Friese, 1899)
E. auripes (Gribodo, 1882)
E. bare González & Gaiani, 1989
E. boharti (Kimsey, 1977)
E. brasilianorum (Friese, 1899)
E. caerulescens (Lepeletier, 1841)
E. chaconi González & Gaiani, 1989
E. chalybaea (Friese, 1923)
E. chrysopyga (Mocsáry, 1898)
E. combinata (Mocsáry, 1897)
E. concava (Friese, 1899)
E. convexa (Friese, 1899)
E. corusca (Kimsey, 1977)
E. distinguenda (Gribodo, 1882)
E. dressleri (Kimsey, 1977)
E. duckei (Friese, 1923)
E. eburneocincta (Kimsey, 1977)
E. elegans (Lepeletier, 1841)
E. excellens (Friese, 1925)
E. faceta (Moure, 1999)
E. fallax (Smith, 1854)
E. flaviventris (Friese, 1899)
E. formosa (Mocsáry, 1908)
E. fragrocara (Kimsey, 1977)
E. kimimari González & Gaiani, 1989
E. laniventris (Ducke, 1902)
E. limbata (Mocsáry, 1897)

E. lucida (Kimsey, 1977)
E. lucifera Kimsey, 1977
E. macroglossa (Moure, 1965)
E. magrettii (Friese, 1899)
E. mariana (Mocsáry, 1896)
E. mexicana (Mocsáry, 1897)
E. mussitans (Fabricius, 1787)
E. nigrescens (Friese, 1925)
E. nigrohirta (Friese, 1899)
E. nordestina (Moure, 1999)
E. opulenta (Mocsáry, 1908)
E. ornata (Mocsáry, 1896)
E. pallida (Kimsey, 1977)
E. pretiosa (Friese, 1903)
E. pulchra (Smith, 1854)
E. purpurata (Mocsáry, 1896)
E. rufocauda (Kimsey, 1977)
E. rugosa (Friese, 1899)
E. schmidtiana (Friese, 1925)
E. simillima (Moure & Michener, 1965)
E. smaragdina (Perty, 1833)
E. superba (Hoffmannsegg, 1817)
E. surinamensis (Linnaeus, 1758)
E. theresiae (Mocsáry, 1908)
E. tucumana (Schrottky, 1902)
E. velutina (Moure, 1999)
E. venezolana (Schrottky, 1913)
E. venusta (Moure, 1965)
E. vidua (Moure, 1976)
E. violacea (Blanchard, 1840)
E. violascens (Mocsáry, 1898)

[edit] Footnotes

^ dos Anjos-Silva et al. 2006

[edit] References

Roberts, Donald R.; Alecrim, Wilson D.; Heller, Jack M.; Ehrhardt, Susan R. & Lima, José B. (1982): Male Eufriesia [sic] purpurata, a DDT-collecting euglossine bee in Brazil. Nature 297: 62-63. doi:10.1038/297062a0
dos Anjos-Silva, Evandson J.; Camillo, Evandro & Garófalo, Carlos A. (2006): Occurrence of Aglae caerulea Lepeletier & Serville (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini) in the Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso State, Brazil. Neotrop. Entomol. 35(6) doi:10.1590/S1519-566X2006000600024
Eufriesea (TSN 634115). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 9 June 2008.

[edit] Further reading

Whitten, W. Mark; Young, Allen M. & Stern, David L. (1993): Nonfloral sources of chemicals that attract male euglossine bees (Apidae: Euglossini). Journal of Chemical Ecology 19(12): 1573-1561. doi:10.1007/BF00980599
Cameron, Sydney A. (2004): Phylogeny and Biology of Neotropical Orchid Bees (Euglossini). Annual Review of Entomology 49: 377-404. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.49.072103.115855
Roubik, D. W. (1989): Ecology and natural history of tropical bees. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Vetter, Walter & Roberts, Donald (2007): Revisiting the organohalogens associated with 1979-samples of Brazilian bees (Eufriesea purpurata). Science of The Total Environment 377: 371-377. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.02.009