| Coelioxys fenestratus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Megachilidae |
| Genus: | Coelioxys |
| Species: | C. fenestratus |
| Binomial name | |
| Coelioxys fenestratus Smith, 1873 | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Coelioxys fenestratus is a species of leaf-cutting bee in the genus Coelioxys , of the family Megachilidae. It is found in India, [2] and recordings from Sri Lanka are uncertain.[ citation needed ] It is also found in Korea, Japan, and China [2] [3]
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The species was first described in 1873 by Frederick Smith [1] as Coelioxys fenestrata, [4] who described a female collected in Hakodadi, North China:
Female. Length 7 1/2 lines. Black: head and thorax coarsely rugose; the first, second and third segments of the abdomen evenly and rather strongly punctured; the two following segments very finely punctured at the base, and more strongly so towards their apical margins; the sixth segment elongated and acute, the inferior plate of the segment prolonged a little beyond the upper one; on each side of the scutellum is a short tooth which is curved downwards. The face densely clothed with short bright fulvous pubescence; the wings dark fuscous, with their base hyaline. The apical margins of the segments of the abdomen are very narrowly fringed with white pubescence. [4]
