Description of immature stages of cleptoparasitic bees Epeoloides coecutiens and Leiopodus trochantericus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Osirini, Protepeolini) with remarks to their unusual biology

Entomologica Fennica

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 242-254

  Straka, Jakub ^a   Bogusch, Petr ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APIDAE; APOIDEA; DIADASINA; HYMENOPTERA; LEIOPODUS; MACROPIS FULVIPES; PROTEPEOLINI;

EID: 37349103184     PISSN: 07858760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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