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Exaerete

Exaerete
Exaerete frontalis, side, guyana 2014-06-18-16.52.08 ZS PMax (14484934133).jpg
Exaerete frontalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Tribe: Euglossini
Genus: Exaerete
Hoffmannsegg, 1817 

Exaerete is a genus of euglossine bees 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. It contains the following species:



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