Cuckoo bee, Melecta albifrons 1, European larch tree, Larix decidua 2, and stingless melipona honey bee, Melipona favosa 3. Melecte, Meleze, Melipone. Handcoloured steel engraving by Pfitzer after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39.

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