The Rhathymini are a tribe of
kleptoparasitic
Kleptoparasitism (etymologically, parasitism by theft) is a form of feeding in which one animal deliberately takes food from another. The strategy is evolutionarily stable when stealing is less costly than direct feeding, which can mean when foo ...
apid bees ("
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 ...
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Genera
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Nanorhathymus''
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Rhathymus
''Rhathymus'' is a genus of kleptoparasitic bees belonging to the family Apidae
Apidae is the largest family within the superfamily Apoidea, containing at least 5700 species of bees. The family includes some of the most commonly seen bees, inc ...
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References
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C. D. Michener (2000) ''The Bees of the World'', Johns Hopkins University Press.
Apinae
Bee tribes
Taxa named by Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier
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