-
Kleptoparasitism (originally
spelt clepto-parasitism,
meaning "parasitism by theft") is a form of
feeding in
which one
animal deliberately takes food from...
- is a very
large cosmopolitan group, all of
which are
parasitoids or
cleptoparasites of
other insects.
There are
three large,
common families (Bethylidae...
- families, like Townsendiella, a
nomadine apid, two
species of
which are
cleptoparasites of the
dasypodaid genus Hesperapis,
while the
other species in the...
- Colletidae.
Andrenids are
among the few bee
families that have no
cleptoparasites. The
family contains a very
large number of taxa,
especially among...
-
common species of
cuckoo wasp,
Chrysis angolensis, is
frequently a
cleptoparasite in
Sceliphron nests, and is only one of many
different insects that...
-
nematode ****ociated with the fig
pollinator Blastophaga psenes, and its
cleptoparasite Philotrypesis caricae.
Schistonchus macrophylla and
Schistonchus altermacrophylla...
- Nomadinae, or
cuckoo bees, has 31
genera in 10
tribes which are all
cleptoparasites in the
nests of
other bees.
Tribes include:
Ammobatini Ammobatoidini...
- Smith-Pardo. (2013). New
species of
Exomalopsis and its ****ociated
cleptoparasite Nomada from
Colombia with
description of the nest (Hymenoptera: Apoidea:...
- the Neotropics. All but one
species is
metallic green, and they are
cleptoparasites in the
nests of
other euglossines in the
genera Eufriesea and Eulaema...
- "First
record of
Huarpea wagneriella (Hymenoptera: Sapygidae) as a
cleptoparasite of
large carpenter bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Xylocopinae)". Studies...
