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Knob-fronted Cuckoo-Orchid bee

Exaerete frontalis

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Apidae

Exaerete frontalis is a kleptoparasitic species of euglossine bees. 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

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 3