Xylocopa darwini

Galapágos carpenter bee
Female, on Bastardia viscosa (viscid mallow), Santa Cruz Island
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Hymenoptera
Family:Apidae
Genus:Xylocopa
Species: X. darwini
Binomial name
Xylocopa darwini
Cockerell, 1926[1]

Xylocopa darwini, the Galápagos carpenter bee, is the only native species of bee found in the Galápagos Islands, to which it is endemic.[2][3] The female is all black, whereas the male has a black abdomen and is yellow-brown elsewhere.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "ITIS Standard Report Page: Xylocopa darwini", Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), retrieved 2015-06-19
  2. ↑ Nicholls, Henry (2014), The Galápagos : A Natural History, New York: Basic Books, pp. 62–63, ISBN 978-0-465-03597-7
  3. ↑ "Xylocopa darwini", Galapagos Species Checklist, Charles Darwin Foundation, retrieved 2015-06-19
  4. ↑ Bowman, Robert I., ed. (1966), The Galápagos: Proceedings of the Symposia of the Galápagos International Scientific Project, Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 64, OCLC 752923272, retrieved 2015-06-19

Bibliography

  • Vargas, Pablo; Rumeu, Beatriz; Heleno, Ruben H.; Traveset, Anna & Nogales, Manuel (2015-03-25), "Historical Isolation of the Galápagos Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa darwini) despite Strong Flight Capability and Ecological Amplitude", PLoS ONE, 10 (3): e0120597, Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1020597V, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120597, PMC 4373804, PMID 25807496


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