Xylocopa fenestrata, or Xylocopa (Ctenoxylocopa) fenestrata, is a species of carpenter bee. It is widely distributed in Asian countries and very few African countries such as Madagascar, Seychelles and Réunion.[2] It is considered as a pest of timber and bamboo, but is also a valuable pollinator.[3]
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| Species: | Xylocopa fenestrata (Fabricius, 1798)
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References
edit- ^ "Xylocopa fenestrata". Discoverlife.org. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ "Espèces d'abeilles et de guêpes". Rentokil (in French). Archived from the original on 16 May 2022.
- ^ "Behaviour and ecology of the subtropical bee Xylocopa fenestrata F. 7. Nest preferences and response to nest translocation". Conservationevidence.com. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
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editFurther reading
edit- Ruggiero M. (project leader), Ascher J. et al. (2013). ITIS Bees: World Bee Checklist (version Sep 2009). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 11 March 2013 (Roskov Y., Kunze T., Paglinawan L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Hernandez F., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col/. Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- John Ascher, Connal Eardley, Terry Griswold, Gabriel Melo, Andrew Polaszek, Michael Ruggiero, Paul Williams, Ken Walker, and Natapot Warrit.