Xylocopa fenestrata

Xylocopa fenestrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Apocrita
Superfamily:	Apoidea
Family:	Apidae
Subfamily:	Xylocopinae
Tribe:	Xylocopini
Genus:	Xylocopa
Subgenus:	Ctenoxylocopa
Species:	Xylocopa fenestrata (Fabricius, 1798)
Synonyms
Apis fenestrata Fabricius, 1798 Xylocopa lunata Klug, 1807 Xylocopa indica Klug, 1807 Xylocopa serripes Burmeister, 1876 Xylocopa gardineri Cameron, 1902 Xylocopa serripes_homonym Hedicke, 1938 Xylocopa hedickae Maa, 1940, replacement name Xylocopa (Ctenoxylocopa) fenestrata mauritii Maa, 1970 [1]

Xylocopa fenestrata, or Xylocopa (Ctenoxylocopa) fenestrata, is a species of carpenter bee. It is widely distributed in Asian countries and very few African countries such as Madagascar and Seychelles. It is considered as a pest of timber and bamboo, but is also a valuable pollinator.^[2]

References

1. "Xylocopa fenestrata". Discoverlife.org. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
2. "Behaviour and ecology of the subtropical bee Xylocopa fenestrata F. 7. Nest preferences and response to nest translocation". Conservationevidence.com. Retrieved 2015-06-01.

External links

• Itis.gov
• Animaldiversity.org
• Flickr.com

Further reading

• Ruggiero M. (project leader), Ascher J. et al. (2013). ITIS Bees: World Bee Checklist (version Sep 2009). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 11 March 2013 (Roskov Y., Kunze T., Paglinawan L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Hernandez F., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col/. Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• John Ascher, Connal Eardley, Terry Griswold, Gabriel Melo, Andrew Polaszek, Michael Ruggiero, Paul Williams, Ken Walker, and Natapot Warrit.