Exaerete frontalis

Exaerete frontalis
Exaerete frontalis from Guyana.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Apidae
Genus:	Exaerete
Species:	E. frontalis
Binomial name
Exaerete frontalis (Guérin-Méneville, 1845)

Exaerete frontalis is a kleptoparasitic species of euglossine bees. ^{[1] [2]}

Behavior

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

Exaerete frontalis is found from Central America to central South America. ^[3]

References

1. "Species details : Exaerete frontalis (Guérin-Méneville, 1845)". Catalogue of Life. 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
2. 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.
3. "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.