Exaerete smaragdina
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| Exaerete smaragdina | |
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| Exaerete smaragdina from Peru. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Genus: | Exaerete |
| Species: | E. smaragdina |
| Binomial name | |
| Exaerete smaragdina (Guérin-Méneville, 1845) | |
Exaerete smaragdina is a species of kleptoparasitic euglossine bees.[1]
Exaerete smaragdina can reach a length of about 20 millimetres (0.79 in). Body color is metallic green. The metatibiae are three times longer than wide in both sexes. Like other "cuckoo bees", females lack a pollen-carrying apparatus.[2]
