Exoneura excavata
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Genus: | Exoneura |
| Species: | E. excavata |
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Exoneura excavata, or Exoneura (Inquilina) excavata, is a species of reed bee in the tribe Allodapini. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1922 by British-American entomologist Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell.[1][2]
E. excavata includes three species originally described by Rayment but later synonymised by Michener in 1983.[3]
Description
The body length of is 7.5 mm. Colouration is mainly black, with a dark chestnut-red abdomen.[1]
