Euaspis Strandi
''Euaspis'' is a genus of cuckoo bees belonging to the family Megachilidae. The species of this genus are found in Africa and Southeastern Asia. Species: *''Euaspis abdominalis'' *''Euaspis aequicarinata'' *''Euaspis basalis'' *''Euaspis carbonaria'' *''Euaspis diversicarinata'' *''Euaspis edentata'' *''Euaspis erythros'' *''Euaspis lorenzae'' *''Euaspis polynesia'' *''Euaspis strandi'' *''Euaspis trilobata'' *''Euaspis wegneri'' References

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Cuckoo Bee
The term cuckoo bee is used for a variety of different bee lineages which have evolved the kleptoparasitic behaviour of laying their eggs in the nests of other bees, reminiscent of the behavior of cuckoo birds. The name is perhaps best applied to the apid subfamily Nomadinae, but is sometimes used in Europe to mean bumblebees (''Bombus'') in the subgenus ''Psithyrus''. Females of cuckoo bees are easy to recognize in almost all cases, as they lack pollen-collecting structures (the scopa) and do not construct their own nests. They often have reduced body hair, abnormally thick and/or heavily sculptured exoskeleton, and saber-like mandibles, although this is not universally true; other less visible changes are also common. The number of times kleptoparasitic behavior has independently evolved within the bees is remarkable; Charles Duncan Michener (2000) lists 16 lineages in which parasitism of social species has evolved (mostly in the family Apidae), and 31 lineages that parasitiz ...
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