Establishment of the Neotropical Orchid Bee Euglossa Viridissima (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Florida

Orchid bee fauna (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossina) of Atlantic Forest fragments inside an urban area in southeastern Brazil

“…Euglossina (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Apini) is a strictly Neotropical group of bees occurring from northern Argentina to northern Mexico (Pearson & Dressler 1985, but see Minckley &Reyes 1996 andSkov &Wiley 2005). Their males are storing them in special organs in their posterior tibiae (Dodson et al 1969).…”

Presence of <i>Euglossa</i> (<i>Euglossa</i>) <i>amazonica</i> outside of the Amazon Basin – biogeographic insights

“…Records at great distances from previous boundaries, in localities otherwise in different biogeographic realms, or when introduced by human activity into novel regions (intentionally or otherwise), all permit a more refined understanding of the ecological parameters necessary for a species' persistence and clues as to its history. Several important examples of this for species of Euglossa have been reported in recent years (e.g., Skov & Wiley, 2005;Anjos-Silva, 2008;Nemésio, 2007), and as field surveys, particularly in under-sampled areas, and taxonomic revisions continue, a clarified biogeographic history of Euglossa is emerging.…”

“…Euglossa Latreille, the largest genus in the tribe, occurs naturally from northern Mexico to northern Argentina and subtropical southeastern Brazil (Rebêlo 2001;Roubik & Hanson, 2004;Michener, 2007). The genus also includes the only living euglossine species in the Caribbean (Engel, 1999;Rebêlo, 2001), and an adventive population of another species established in southern Florida (Skov & Wiley, 2005;Hinojosa-Díaz et al, 2009). Only three or four nominal species in the genus have widespread ranges throughout the Neotropical region (Roubik & , 2004), all others exhibiting restricted ranges that can be interpreted in different ways (e.g., Roubik & Hanson, 2004;Ramírez et al, 2010).…”

On the identity of the adventive species of Eufriesea Cockerell in the USA: systematics and potential distribution of the coerulescens species group (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

“…In the Andes, except for the monotypic genus Aglae Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau & Serville, specimens of one or two species of the remaining four genera of Euglossini have been collected at elevations above 2500 m (Gonzalez and Engel 2004, Perger 2015. In the USA, in addition to Eufriesea, two other orchid bee species have been documented: Euglossa dilemma Bembé & Eltz [as E. viridissima (Friese)] in southern Florida and Eulaema polychroma (Mocsáry) in southern Arizona and southernmost Texas (Minckley and Reyes 1996, Búrquez 1997, Skov and Wiley 2005, Griswold et al 2015.…”