Exaerete frontalis
| Exaerete frontalis | |
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| Exaerete frontalis from Guyana. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Genus: | Exaerete |
| Species: | E. frontalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Exaerete frontalis (Guérin-Méneville, 1845)
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Exaerete frontalis is a kleptoparasitic species of euglossine bees.[1][2]
Description
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Behavior
[edit]Exaerete frontalis is a kleptoparasitic species. Females do not build own nests but lay their egg in nests of other large euglossine bees, especially in the genera Eulaema and Eufriesea.
Distribution
[edit]Exaerete frontalis is found from Central America to central South America.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Species details : Exaerete frontalis (Guérin-Méneville, 1845)". Catalogue of Life. 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- ^ Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2015. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.
- ^ "Map of Exaerete frontalis". Discover Life. Polistes Foundation, Inc. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
4.Dressler, R. L. 1982. Biology of the orchid bees (Euglossini). Annual Review of Ecology and Systematiics 13: 373–394.