Eulaema

Eulaema
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Apidae
Subfamily:	Apinae
Tribe:	Euglossini
Genus:	Eulaema Lepeletier, 1841
Species
see text
Diversity
c. 25 species

Eulaema is a genus of large-bodied euglossine bees that occur primarily in the Neotropics.

They are robust brown or black bees, hairy or velvety and often striped with yellow or orange, typically resembling bumblebees. They lack metallic coloration as occurs in the related genus Eufriesea.^[1]

Distribution

Eulaema is found from Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), Misiones (Argentina) and Paraguay^[2] to northern Mexico with occasional strays into the United States^[3]

Species

E. basicincta Moure, 2000
E. bennetti Moure, 1967
E. boliviensis (Friese, 1898)
E. bombiformis (Packard, 1869)
E. bomboides (Friese, 1923)
E. chocoana Ospina-Torres & Sandino-Franco, 1997
E. cingulata (Fabricius, 1804)
E. flavescens (Friese, 1899)
E. leucopyga (Friese, 1898)
E. luteola Moure, 1967
E. meriana (Olivier, 1789)
E. mocsaryi (Friese, 1899)
E. napensis Oliveira, 2006
E. nigrifacies (Friese, 1897)
E. nigrita Lepeletier, 1841
E. parapolyzona Oliveira, 2006
E. peruviana (Friese, 1903)
E. polychroma (Mocsáry, 1899)
E. polyzona (Mocsáry, 1897)
E. pseudocingulata Oliveira, 2006
E. seabrai Moure, 1960
E. sororia Dressler & Ospina-Torres, 1997
E. speciosa (Mocsáry, 1897)
E. tenuifasciata (Friese, 1925)
E. terminata (Smith, 1874)

Footnotes

↑ Michener, C. D. (2000). The Bees of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press. 913 pp.
↑ dos Anjos-Silva et al. 2006
↑ Minckley, R. L., S. G. Reyes (1996). Capture of the orchid bee, Eulaema polychroma (Friese) (Apidae: Euglossini) in Arizona, with notes on northern distributions of other Mesoamerican bees. J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 69(1): 102-104.

References

Williams, Norris H. & Whitten, W. Mark (1983): Orchid floral fragrances and male euglossine bees: methods and advances in the last sesquidecade. Biol. Bull. 164: 355-395.
dos Anjos-Silva, Evandson J.; Camillo, Evandro & Garófalo, Carlos A. (2006): Occurrence of Aglae caerulea Lepeletier & Serville (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini) in the Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso State, Brazil. Neotrop. Entomol. 35(6) doi:10.1590/S1519-566X2006000600024
"Eulaema". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 June 2008.

External links

Data related to Eulaema at Wikispecies
David Roubik (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute): Diagnostic photographs of several Eulaema species

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