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Xylocopa species, m, australia face
Here is a carpenter bee species from Australia that has a very different look and feel from our North American species. Very likely in a different subfamily but taxonomically and morphologically there must be great similarities to keep them within the same genus. Other than being a male I don't know anything more about this specimen other than it was in Laurence Packer's collection at York University....I am not quite sure of its size either.
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