Exaerete

Exaerete
Exaerete smaragdina in the Saint Petersburg Zoological Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Tribe: Euglossini
Genus: Exaerete
Hoffmannsegg, 1817 [1]

Exaerete is a genus of euglossine bees[2] found from Mexico to northern Argentina.[3] Like all orchid bees, they are restricted to the Neotropics. All but one species is metallic green,[3] and they are cleptoparasites in the nests of other euglossines in the genera Eufriesea and Eulaema.[4][5] It contains the following species:[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Exaerete Hoffmannsegg, 1817". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 June 2008.
  2. ↑ Sydney A. Cameron (2004). "Phylogeny and biology of Neotropical orchid bees (Euglossini)". Annual Review of Entomology 49: 377–404. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.49.072103.115855.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Evandson J. dos Anjos-Silva, Evandro Camillo & Carlos A. Garáfalo (2006). "Occurrence of Aglae caerulea Lepeletier & Serville (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini) in the Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso State, Brazil". Neotropical Entomology 35 (6). doi:10.1590/S1519-566X2006000600024.
  4. ↑ Norris H. Williams & W. Mark Whitten (1983). "Orchid floral fragrances and male euglossine bees: methods and advances in the last sesquidecade". The Biological Bulletin 164 (3): 355–395. JSTOR 1541248.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Andre Nemesio (2011). "Exaerete salsai sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Apidae): a new orchid bee from eastern Brazil" (PDF EXCERPT). Zootaxa 2967: 2–20.

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