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Xylocopa micans : ウィキペディア英語版 | Xylocopa micans ''Xylocopa micans'', also known as the southern carpenter bee, is a species of bee within ''Xylocopa'', the genus of carpenter bees. The southern carpenter bee can be found mainly in the coastal and gulf regions of the southeastern United States, as well as Mexico and Guatemala. Like all ''Xylocopa'' bees, ''X. micans'' bees excavate nests in woody plant material. However, unlike its sympatric species ''Xylocopa virginica'', ''X. micans'' has not been found to construct nest galleries in structural timbers of building, making it less of an economic nuisance to humans. Carpenter bees have a wide range of mating strategies between different species. The southern carpenter bee exhibits a polymorphic mating strategy, with its preferred method of mating changing as the season progresses from early spring to mid summer. Like most bees in its genus, the southern carpenter bee is considered a solitary bee because it does not live in colonies. == Taxonomy and phylogeny == The French entomologist and Hymenoptera specialist Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier first described ''Xylocopa micans'' in 1841. The genus name ''Xylocopus'' is derived from the Ancient Greek word xylokopos/ξῦλοκὀπος meaning "wood-cutter," a reference to the bee's tendency to nest in wood. The species name ''micans'' comes from the Latin word for "shining," referring to the reflective quality of the bee's body. The common name for ''X. micans'', the southern carpenter bee, refers to the distribution of the species in the southern United States. ''X. micans'' has been studied alongside ''X. virginica'' because of their sympatry in the state of Texas. Although the bees ''Xylocopa vidua'', ''Xylocopa purpurea, and Xylocopa binotata'' have all been described separately by entomologists, they are all likely specimens within the species ''X. micans''.〔 ''X. micans'' belongs to the subgenus ''Schoenherria'', which is a largely neotropical grouping of carpenter bee species.
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