| Xylocopa olivacea | |
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| Xylocopa olivacea from Guinea-Bissau | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Genus: | Xylocopa |
| Species: | X. olivacea |
| Binomial name | |
| Xylocopa olivacea (Fabricius 1778) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Xylocopa olivacea is a species of carpenter bee. [2] It has a completely yellow thorax and a yellow band on the first tergite. This species is very similar to X. calens, endemic to Madagascar. X. calens just differs in the length of the hair on the metasoma. [1]
This species can be found in Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Angola, and South Africa. [1]