Exaerete frontalis

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| image_caption = Exaerete frontalis from Guyana.

| taxon = Exaerete frontalis

| authority = (Guérin-Méneville, 1845)

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Exaerete frontalis is a kleptoparasitic species of euglossine bees.{{cite web|title=Species details : Exaerete frontalis (Guérin-Méneville, 1845)|url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2015/details/species/id/2cbe65e0648f8749a94eb5e2f6d30e76|website=Catalogue of Life|access-date=29 April 2015|date=2015}}Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2015. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

Description

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Behavior

Exaerete frontalis is a kleptoparasitic species. Females do not build own nests but lay their egg in nests of other large euglossine bees, especially in the genera Eulaema and Eufriesea.

Distribution

Exaerete frontalis is found from Central America to central South America.{{cite web|title=Map of Exaerete frontalis|url=http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20m?kind=Exaerete+frontalis|website=Discover Life|publisher=Polistes Foundation, Inc.|access-date=29 April 2015}}

References

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4.Dressler, R. L. 1982. Biology of the orchid bees (Euglossini). Annual Review of Ecology and Systematiics 13: 373–394.

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Category:Hymenoptera of North America

Category:Hymenoptera of South America

Category:Insects of Central America

Category:Taxa named by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville

Category:Orchid pollinators

Category:Insects described in 1845

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