Cuckoo-Orchid Bees

Exaerete is a genus of euglossine bees found from Mexico to northern Argentina. Like all orchid bees, they are restricted to 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. It contains the following species:

Exaerete azteca Moure, 1964

Exaerete dentata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Exaerete fallaciosa Engel, 2018

Exaerete frontalis (Guérin-Méneville, 1845)

Exaerete kimseyae Oliviera, 2011

Exaerete lepeletieri Oliviera & Nemesio, 2003

Exaerete salsai Nemesio, 2011

Exaerete smaragdina (Guérin-Méneville, 1845)

Exaerete tricosa Engel & Bembé, 2020

Exaerete trochanterica (Friese, 1900)