Xylocopa darwini
| Xylocopa darwini | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Female, on Bastardia viscosa (viscid mallow), Santa Cruz Island | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Suborder: | Apocrita |
| Superfamily: | Apoidea |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Subfamily: | Xylocopinae |
| Tribe: | Xylocopini |
| Genus: | Xylocopa |
| Species: | X. darwini |
| Binomial name | |
| Xylocopa darwini Cockerell, 1926[1] | |
Xylocopa darwini, the Galápagos carpenter bee, is the only native species of bee found in the Galápagos Islands, to which it is endemic.[2][3] The female is all black, whereas the male has a black abdomen and is yellow-brown elsewhere.[4]
References
- ↑ "ITIS Standard Report Page: Xylocopa darwini", Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), retrieved 2015-06-19
- ↑ Nicholls, Henry (2014), The Galápagos : A Natural History, New York: Basic Books, pp. 62–63, ISBN 978-0-465-03597-7
- ↑ "Xylocopa darwini", Galapagos Species Checklist (Charles Darwin Foundation), retrieved 2015-06-19
- ↑ Bowman, Robert I., ed. (1966), The Galápagos: Proceedings of the Symposia of the Galápagos International Scientific Project, Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 64, OCLC 752923272, retrieved 2015-06-19
Bibliography
- Vargas, Pablo; Rumeu, Beatriz; Heleno, Ruben H.; Traveset, Anna & Nogales, Manuel (2015-03-25), "Historical Isolation of the Galápagos Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa darwini) despite Strong Flight Capability and Ecological Amplitude", PLoS ONE 10 (3), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120597
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