Abstract
Bees of the genus Chalepogenus Holmberg collect oils offered as a reward by flowers of a few plant families: Iridaceae, Calceolariaceae (formerly included in Scrophulariaceae, see Olmstead et al. 2001), and Solanaceae (Vogel 1974; Cocucci 1991; Roig Alsina 1999; Cocucci et al. 2000; Machado 2004). The oil-collecting structures of these bees are situated on the forebasitarsus and show interspecific variation related to the type of flower they visit (Roig Alsina 1997; Cocucci et al. 2000).
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