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Mesocheira
Mesocheira bicolor
(Fabricius, 1804)
Lateral view of male of
Mesocheira bicolor
(Fabricius, 1804) (Photo: L. Alvarez)
Lateral view of male of
Mesocheira bicolor
(Fabricius, 1804) (Photo: L. Alvarez)
Dorsal view of male of
Mesocheira bicolor
(Fabricius, 1804) (Photo: L. Alvarez)
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Parasite bees
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Chaco
Corrientes
Formosa
Salta
San Juan
Santa Fe
Tucumán
Other distribution
Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama and Paraguay.
Synonyms
Mesocheira pulchella
Holmberg, 1887
Mesocheira bicolor elizabethae
Cockerell, 1910
Exaerete bilamellosa
Cockerell, 1949
Exaerete melanura
Cockerell, 1949
Observations
Mesocheira bicolor
attack nests of
Centris (Hemisiella) tarsata
Smith and
Centris (Hemisiella) nigriventris
Burmeister (Torretta et al. 2024).
Host plants
Duranta repens
[Verbenaceae] and
Tabebuia nodosa
[Bignoniaceae] (Torretta et al. 2024)
References
HOLMBERG, E. L. 1887a.
Sobre ápidos nómadas de la República Argentina. An. Soc. Cient. Argent. 23: 17-33
SCHROTTKY, C. 1913.
La distribución geográfica de los himenópteros argentinos. An. Soc. Cient. Argent. 75: 180-286
TORRETTA, JUAN P., GRAFFIGNA, SOFIA, ALLASINO, MARIANA L., AVALOS, ADAN A., MARRERO, HUGO J., & ALVAREZ, LEOPOLDO J. 2024.
The Neotropical Cleptoparasitic Bee
Mesocheira bicolor
(Hymenoptera: Apidae: Ericrocidini) in Argentina. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc.150(1): 159-164.
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