Eulaema

Taxobox
name = "Eulaema"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hymenoptera
familia = Apidae
subfamilia = Apinae
tribus = Euglossini
genus = "Eulaema"
genus_authority = Lepeletier, 1841
diversity_link = Eulaema
diversity = c. 25 species
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =see text
synonyms =

"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.

Distribution

"Eulaema" is found from Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), Misiones (Argentina) and Paraguay [dos Anjos-Silva "et al." 2006] to northern Mexico with occasional strays into the United States [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.]

pecies

* "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

References

* (1983): Orchid floral fragrances and male euglossine bees: methods and advances in the last sesquidecade. "Biol. Bull." 164: 355-395.
* (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
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Further reading

* (2004): Phylogeny and Biology of Neotropical Orchid Bees (Euglossini). "Annual Review of Entomology" 49: 377-404. doi|10.1146/annurev.ento.49.072103.115855

External links

* David Roubik (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute): [http://pick5.pick.uga.edu/mp/20q?search=Eulaema Diagnostic photographs of several "Eulaema" species]