Exaerete

{{Short description|Genus of bees}}

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| image = Exaerete frontalis, side, guyana 2014-06-18-16.52.08 ZS PMax (14484934133).jpg

| image_caption = Exaerete frontalis

| taxon = Exaerete

| authority = Hoffmannsegg, 1817 {{ITIS |id=634125 |taxon=Exaerete Hoffmannsegg, 1817 |access-date=12 June 2008}}

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Exaerete is a genus of euglossine bees{{cite journal |author=Sydney A. Cameron |year=2004 |title=Phylogeny and biology of Neotropical orchid bees (Euglossini) |journal=Annual Review of Entomology |volume=49 |pages=377–404 |doi=10.1146/annurev.ento.49.072103.115855 |pmid=14651469}} found from Mexico to northern Argentina. Like all orchid bees, they are restricted to the Neotropics. All but one species is metallic green, and they are cleptoparasites in the nests of other euglossines in the genera Eufriesea and Eulaema.{{cite journal |author=Norris H. Williams & W. Mark Whitten |year=1983 |title=Orchid floral fragrances and male euglossine bees: methods and advances in the last sesquidecade |journal=The Biological Bulletin |volume=164 |issue=3 |pages=355–395 |jstor=1541248 |doi=10.2307/1541248|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/35261 }}{{cite journal |author=Andre Nemesio |year=2011 |title=Exaerete salsai sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Apidae): a new orchid bee from eastern Brazil |journal=Zootaxa |volume=2967 |pages=2–20 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/z02967p020f.pdf |format=PDF excerpt}} It contains the following species:{{cite journal |author=Engel, M.S. |year=2018 |title=A new species of the cleptoparasitic orchid bee genus Exaerete from northern Venezuela (Hymenoptera: Apidae) |journal=Entomologist's Monthly Magazine |volume=154 |issue=3 |pages=161–175 |doi=10.31184/M00138908.1543.3949|s2cid=91665807 }}

File:Exaerete smaragdina 448429782.jpg, Peru]]

• Exaerete azteca Moure, 1964
• Exaerete dentata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Exaerete fallaciosa Engel, 2018
• Exaerete frontalis (Guérin-Méneville, 1845)
• Exaerete kimseyae Oliviera, 2011
• Exaerete lepeletieri Oliviera & Nemesio, 2003
• Exaerete salsai Nemesio, 2011
• Exaerete smaragdina (Guérin-Méneville, 1845)
• Exaerete tricosa Engel & Bembé, 2020
• Exaerete trochanterica (Friese, 1900)