First record of Exaerete lepeletieri Oliveira & Nemésio (Hymenoptera: apidae: Euglossina) in Venezuela and comments on the distribution of Eufriesea laniventris (Ducke) in the Amazon

Abstract

Exaerete lepeletieri Oliveira & Nemésio (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossina), a cleptoparasitic species recently described from the Brazilian Amazon, is recorded for the first time outside Brazil, through a female specimen collected in Merida Province, Venezuela.

Keywords

• Hexapoda
• Insecta
• cleptoparasite
• bee
• orchid bee