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Kleptoparasitism (originally
spelt clepto-parasitism,
meaning "parasitism by theft") is a form of
feeding in
which one
animal deliberately takes food from...
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attract various species of
parasitic flies and wasps, many of
which are
cleptoparasites; in some cases, the sand
wasps prey on
their own
parasites (e.g.,)...
- Nomadinae, or
cuckoo bees, has 31
genera in 10
tribes which are all
cleptoparasites in the
nests of
other bees.
Tribes include:
Ammobatini Ammobatoidini...
- 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...
- coloration, and sculpture;
among the more
unusual variants, some are
cleptoparasites, some are nocturnal, and some are oligolectic. Most
Lasioglossum species...
- 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...
-
Meloe violaceus, the
larvae are
cleptoparasites on A. scotica...
-
common species of
cuckoo wasp,
Chrysis angolensis, is
frequently a
cleptoparasite in
Sceliphron nests, and is only one of many
different insects that...
- it is a
cleptoparasite of
other Lasioglossum species....
