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Pigmentary colouration of hairy carpenter bees, genus Xylocopa

Carpenter bees can display distinct colouration patterns due to structural coloured wings and/or coloured hairs on their bodies. Females of the sexually dichromatic Xylocopa caerulea are marked by strongly blue-pigmented hairs on the head, thorax and abdomen. The thorax of female X. confusa is cover...

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Autor principal: Stavenga, Doekele G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10205864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37219688
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-023-01854-9