''Aglaoapis'' is a genus of
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 t ...
belonging to the family
Megachilidae
Megachilidae is a cosmopolitan family of mostly solitary bees. Characteristic traits of this family are the restriction of their pollen-carrying structure (called a '' scopa'') to the ventral surface of the abdomen (rather than mostly or exclu ...
.
The genus was first described by
P. Cameron in 1901.
Species
* ''
Aglaoapis alata''
(Michener, 1996)
* ''
Aglaoapis brevipennis''
Cameron, 1901
* ''
Aglaoapis tridentata''
(Nylander, 1848)
References
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Megachilidae
Bee genera
Taxa named by Peter Cameron