Xylocopa aestuans
| Xylocopa aestuans | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Suborder: | Apocrita |
| Superfamily: | Apoidea |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Subfamily: | Xylocopinae |
| Tribe: | Xylocopini |
| Genus: | Xylocopa |
| Subgenus: | Koptortosoma |
| Species: | Xylocopa aestuans (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Xylocopa aestuans, or Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) aestuans, is a species of carpenter bee. It is widely distributed in Southeast Asia.[1]
It is a large bee, measuring more than 20mm in length. Historically, it has been confused with Xylocopa pubescens. The two species have a different distribution range. Xylocopa aestuans is restricted to Southeast Asia, while Xylocopa pubescens occurs throughout most of Africa and eastward as far as the entire region of South Asia. There are also very clear, but subtle differences in the morphology of females and males.
References
Further reading
- Ruggiero M. (project leader), Ascher J. et al. (2013). ITIS Bees: World Bee Checklist (version Sep 2009). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 11 March 2013 (Roskov Y., Kunze T., Paglinawan L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Hernandez F., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col/. Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- Engel MS, Alqarni AS, Shebl MA, Iqbal J. & Hinojosa-Diaz IA. 2017. A new species of the carpenter bee genus Xylocopa from the Sarawat Mountains in southwestern Saudi Arabia (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Zookeys, 716: 29-41.
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