Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela
Synonyms
Exaerete aurata Erichson, 1848
Exaerete smaragdina cyanescens Cockerell, 1926
Observations
Cited for northern Argentinan (Kimsey, 1979)
References
KIMSEY, L. S. 1979. An illustrated key to the genus Exaerete with descriptions of male genitalia and biology (Hymenoptera: Euglossini, Apidae). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 52 (4): 735-746
NEMÉSIO, A. 2009. Orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Zootaxa 2041: 1-242