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Hylaeus navai female. Found on the Viti Levu and Taveuni islands of Fiji, this species is still only known from the females, but is named in honor of Navai Village and their long-term support of Fijian bee research. Credit: James Dorey Photography
In 1934, Elwood Zimmerman, an American entomologist who was an undergraduate at Berkeley at the time, took part in the ‘Mangarevan expedition’ to Polynesia. He collected samples that included three small , orange-brown solitary bees, which were discovered on tahetahe flowers in the Tuamotu Archipelago.
This little bee bee Hylaeus derectus is only known thus far from near Mt Nadarivatu on Viti Levu, Fiji. It was collected from a canopy-flowering mistletoe. Credit: James Dorey Photography “It wasn’t until we brought very long nets to Fiji and started collecting from the trees that we started to find our mysterious little bees. Maybe we should not be surprised when the etymology ofHundreds of islands lie between Fiji and French Polynesia, for example, Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands, and Wallis and Futuna.
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