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Exaerete frontalis (Guérin, 1844)
Euglossa frontalis Guérin-Méneville, F. E. (1844). Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non encore figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux; pouvant servir d'atlas à tous les traités de Zoologie. Paris: Baillière, J. B. Vol. 7 576 pp. [458] .
Type data: neotype DZMG <M>.
Subsequent designation: Nemésio, A. (2009). Orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Zootaxa 2041: 1-242 [201] .
Type locality: Brazil, Pará, Oriximiná.

Exaerete lucida Erichson, W. F. (1848). Insecten pp. 553-617 in Schomburgk, R. (ed.) Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-1844. Im Auftrag Sr. Mägestat des Königs von Preussen Vol. III. Leipzig: Weber 1261 pp. [592] .
Type data: holotype ZMB <M> (According to Nemésio & Rasmussen (2011:32), only the pin and labels of the male holotype are left at the ZMB collection).
Type locality: Guyana.

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Bolivia, Brazil (Acre [Bujari, Porto Acre, Rio Branco, Senador Guiomard], Alagoas [Ibateguara, Murici], Amapá, Amazonas [Boca Do Acre, Manaus, Rio Preto Da Eva], Bahia [Camacan, Igrapiúna, Ilhéus, Itamaraju, Ituberá, Porto Seguro, Prado, Taperoá, Una, Uruçuca], Espírito Santo [Conceição Da Barra, Linhares, Pinheiros, Sooretama], Goiás, Maranhão [Buriticupu, Formosa Da Serra Negra], Mato Grosso, Paraíba [Areia], Pará [Oriximiná, Tailândia], Pernambuco [Cabo De Santo Agostinho, Jaqueira], Rondônia [Porto Velho], Roraima [Caracaraí]), Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana (Cayenne), Guyana, Mexico (Veracruz), Panama, Peru, Venezuela

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