''Aglaoapis'' is a genus of
cuckoo bee
The term cuckoo bee is used for a variety of different bee lineages which have evolved the kleptoparasitism, kleptoparasitic behaviour of laying their eggs in the nests of other bees, reminiscent of the behavior of cuckoo birds. The name is perhap ...
belonging to the family
Megachilidae
Megachilidae is a cosmopolitan family of mostly solitary bees. Both that their pollen-carrying structure (called a ''scopa'') is restricted to the ventral surface of the abdomen (rather than mostly or exclusively on the hind legs as in other b ...
.
The genus was first described by P. Cameron in 1901.
Species
* ''
Aglaoapis alata
''Aglaoapis'' is a genus of cuckoo bee belonging to the family Megachilidae.
The genus was first described by P. Cameron in 1901.
Species
* ''Aglaoapis alata'' (Michener, 1996)
* ''Aglaoapis brevipennis'' Cameron, 1901
* ''Aglaoapis tridentata' ...
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(Michener, 1996)
* ''
Aglaoapis brevipennis''
Cameron, 1901
* ''
Aglaoapis tridentata''
(Nylander, 1848)
References
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Megachilidae
Hymenoptera genera