| Exaerete | |
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| E. smaragdina in the Saint Petersburg Zoological Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Subfamily: | Apinae |
| Tribe: | Euglossini |
| Genus: | Exaerete Hoffmannsegg, 1817 |
| Species | |
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| Diversity | |
| 6 species | |
Exaerete is a genus of euglossine bees. Like all orchid bees, they are restricted to the Neotropics.
Like most orchid bees, they are metallic (green, blue, or purple), but they are cleptoparasites in the nests of other euglossines in the genera Eufriesea and Eulaema.
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Exaerete is found from Mexico to northern Argentina[1].