Antonio J. C. Aguiar

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Nesting Biologies and Immature Stages of the Tapinotaspidine Bee Genera Monoeca and Lanthanomelissa and of Their Osirine Cleptoparasites Protosiris and Parepeolus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apinae)
Abstract The nesting biologies of Monoeca haemorrhoidalis (Smith) and Lanthanomelissa betinae Urban (Tapinotaspidini) are described from southeastern Brazil. Both are ground nesting; the nests of the…
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The first cases of gynandromorphism in oil‑collecting bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae: Centridini, Tapinotaspidini)
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Described gynandromorphs of two species oil-collecting bees: Lophopedia nigrispinis and Epicharis iheringii, both with partial bilateral phenotypic asymmetry, both of which have a female phenotype predominantly on mesosoma and metasoma.
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Amazonian species within the Cerrado savanna: new records and potential distribution for Aglae caerulea (Apidae: Euglossini)
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A. caerulea distribution significantly increased towards the Cerrado according to both MaxEnt and GARP algorithms, which are important dispersal alternatives for several species dwelling the Amazon and the Atlantic forest.
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A perfume-collecting male oil bee? Evidences of a novel pollination system involving Anthurium acutifolium (Araceae) and Paratetrapedia chocoensis (Apidae, Tapinotaspidini)
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Interaction between oil-collecting bees and seven species of Plantaginaceae
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Revision and phylogeny of the bee genus Paratetrapedia Moure, with description of a new genus from the Andean Cordillera (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Tapinotaspidini)
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A comprehensive study was carried out to review the taxonomy of the genus Paratetrapedia and to investigate cladistically the relationships amongst its species.
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Biogeography and early diversification of Tapinotaspidini oil-bees support presence of Paleocene savannas in South America.
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Floral oil collection by male Tetrapedia bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Tetrapediini)
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Report of floral oil collection by males of Tetrapedia, a Neotropical genus of oil-collecting bees, describes behavioral aspects of oil foraging by males, data on morphological structures associated with the collection of this resource are presented, and potential hypotheses to explain the significance of floral oils in the mating system of tetrapedia are discussed.
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Krameria tomentosa oil flowers and their pollinators: Bees specialized on trichome elaiophores exploit its epithelial oil glands
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Notes on oil sources for the bee genus Caenonomada(Hymenoptera, Apidae, Tapinotaspidini)
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The record of Caenonomada on Plantaginaceae suggests the use of trichomatic oil glands as a primitive condition in the tribe Tapinotaspidini.
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