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Aru Carpenter
Xylocopa aruana
Xylocopa aruana or Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) aruana, also known as the great carpenter bee, is a species of carpenter bee. It is native to Australasia. It was described in 1876 by Dutch entomologist Coenraad Ritsema.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 522837.