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Euglossa imperialis
''Euglossa imperialis'' is a bee species in the family Apidae. It is considered to be one of the most important pollinators to many neotropical orchid species in mainland Tropical America. It is also one of the most common non-parasitic euglossine species in lowland Panama.〔Ackerman, James D., et al. "(Food-foraging behavior of male Euglossini (Hymenoptera: Apidae): vagabonds or trapliners? )." Biotropica (1982): 241-248.〕 ''E. imperialis'', unlike many other bee species, is not a social bee in the sense that there is no apparent morphological or physiological division within the species to distinguish individual bees to be part of a worker or reproductive caste.〔Roberts, R. B., and Calaway H. Dodson. "(Nesting biology of two communal bees, Euglossa imperialis and Euglossa ignita (Hymenoptera: Apidae), including description of larvae )." Annals of the Entomological Society of America 60.5 (1967): 1007-1014.〕
== Taxonomy and Phylogenetics ==
''E. imperialis'' is a bee species of the Euglossini tribe and Apidae family. The ''Euglossini'' are better known as “orchid bees,” as they are known to interact almost exclusively with flowering orchid species as pollinators, and are known to search for nectar and chemical fragrances as well. The ''Euglossini'' tribe consists of approximately 240 species grouped into five genera—''Euglossa, Eufriesea, Eulaema, Exaerete,'' and ''Aglae—'' all of which are
spread from northern Mexico to northern Argentina. These euglossine bees comprise up to around 25% of local bee communities in lowland wet forests in this region.〔Ramírez, Santiago R et al. “Seasonal Cycles, Phylogenetic Assembly, and Functional Diversity of Orchid Bee Communities.” ''Ecology and Evolution'' 5.9 (2015): 1896–1907. ''PMC''. Web. 16 Oct. 2015.〕 The ''Euglossini'' tribe is also part of the larger ''Apinae'' sub-family, which contains many of the known advanced social bees, such as the honey bees, stingless bees, and bumblebees; however, bees of the ''Euglossini'' tribe are ''non-social'' in nature, meaning that they have not developed a colonial structure with Queen-drone interactions.〔Roubik, David W., L. A. Weight, and M. A. Bonilla. "Population genetics, diploid males, and limits to social evolution of euglossine bees." Evolution (1996): 931-935.〕
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