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- Epeoloides is a genus of cuckoo bees which lay their eggs in the nests of melittid bees of the genus Macropis. One species, Epeoloides pilosulus, is classified...
- Epeoloides pilosulus is one of only two species in the bee genus Epeoloides; it is kleptoparasitic in the nests of melittid bees of the genus Macropis...
- of cuckoo bees are Coelioxys rufitarsis, Melecta separata, Nomada and Epeoloides. Kleptoparasitism in insects is not restricted to bees; several lineages...
- such as Lysimachia ciliata. In Michigan the species has been a host for Epeoloides pilosulus. NatureServe. (n.d.). Macropis patellata. Available from https://explorer...
- Macropis nests are often parasitized by bee cleptoparasites such as Epeoloides. Macropis ciliata Patton, 1880 Macropis dimidiata Yasumatsu & Hirashima...
- the Lysimachia plants, never near nest sites. M. nuda is parasitized by Epeoloides pilosulus, commonly referred to as a "Macropis cuckoo bee". The common...
- bees in the apid tribe Tapinotaspidini; the one exceptional genus is Epeoloides, which has one North American species and one European species, both of...