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To correct a taxonomic family misidentification regarding pollinating carpenter bees in an earlier publication on evolutionary pollination mechanisms.

March 8, 1963Science

Evolutionary Mechanisms in Pollination Biology

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HBHerbert G. BakerAlliant International University

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Erratum reports a taxonomic correction regarding pollinator classification, indicating that floral visits involve Xylocopidae rather than Megachilidae.

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To correct a taxonomic family misidentification regarding pollinating carpenter bees in an earlier publication on evolutionary pollination mechanisms.
Identified and published a formal erratum for a taxonomic naming error in the original article text.
Corrected the identification of floral visitors from the family Megachilidae to carpenter bees of the family Xylocopidae on page 880 of the published article.

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Herbert G. Baker (1963) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6548983caefa6066032f31 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.139.3558.877

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Erratum reports a taxonomic correction regarding pollinator classification, indicating that floral visits involve Xylocopidae rather than Megachilidae.

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