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| name - Galapágos carpenter bee
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| image = Xylocopa darwini 150520.jpg
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| image_caption = Female, on ''[[Bastardia viscosa]]'' (viscid mallow), [[Santa Cruz Island (Galápagos)|Santa Cruz Island]]
| image_caption = Female, on ''[[Bastardia viscosa]]'' (viscid mallow), [[Santa Cruz Island (Galápagos)|Santa Cruz Island]]
| binomial = Xylocopa darwini
| taxon = Xylocopa darwini
| binomial_authority = Cockerell, 1926<ref name=ITIS/>
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'''''Xylocopa darwini''''', the '''Galápagos carpenter bee''', is the only native species of bee found in the [[Galápagos Islands]], to which it is [[Endemism|endemic]].<ref name=Nich14p62/><ref name=GSC_Xd/> The female is all black, whereas the male has a black abdomen and is yellow-brown elsewhere.<ref name=Bowm66/>
'''''Xylocopa darwini''''', the '''Galápagos carpenter bee''', is the only native species of bee found in the [[Galápagos Islands]], to which it is [[Endemism|endemic]].<ref name=Nich14p62/><ref name=GSC_Xd/> The female is all black, whereas the male has a black abdomen and is yellow-brown elsewhere.<ref name=Bowm66/>

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Xylocopa darwini
Female, on Bastardia viscosa (viscid mallow), Santa Cruz Island
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Xylocopa
Species:
X. darwini
Binomial name
Xylocopa darwini
Cockerell, 1926[1]

Xylocopa darwini, the Galápagos carpenter bee, is the only native species of bee found in the Galápagos Islands, to which it is endemic.[2][3] The female is all black, whereas the male has a black abdomen and is yellow-brown elsewhere.[4]

References

  1. ^ "ITIS Standard Report Page: Xylocopa darwini", Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), retrieved 2015-06-19
  2. ^ Nicholls, Henry (2014), The Galápagos : A Natural History, New York: Basic Books, pp. 62–63, ISBN 978-0-465-03597-7
  3. ^ "Xylocopa darwini", Galapagos Species Checklist, Charles Darwin Foundation, retrieved 2015-06-19
  4. ^ Bowman, Robert I., ed. (1966), The Galápagos: Proceedings of the Symposia of the Galápagos International Scientific Project, Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 64, OCLC 752923272, retrieved 2015-06-19

Bibliography

  • Vargas, Pablo; Rumeu, Beatriz; Heleno, Ruben H.; Traveset, Anna; Nogales, Manuel (2015-03-25), "Historical Isolation of the Galápagos Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa darwini) despite Strong Flight Capability and Ecological Amplitude", PLoS ONE, 10 (3): e0120597, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120597, PMC 4373804, PMID 25807496 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)