A revision of the Australian carpenter bees, genus Xylocopa Latreille, subgenera Koptortosoma Gribodo and Lestis Lepeletier and Serville (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Invertebrate Taxonomy

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 115-136

  Leys, Remko ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

BEE; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MATING BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0034055572     PISSN: 08180164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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