FIRST RECORD OF Exaerete lepeletieri OLIVEIRA & NEMESIO (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossina) IN VENEZUELA AND COMMENTS ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF Eufriesea laniventris (DUCKE) IN THE AMAZON

Exaerete lepeletieri Oliveira & Nemesio, 2003 (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossina), a cleptoparasitic bee recently described from the Brazilian Amazon, is here recorded for the first time outside Brazil, through a specimen collected in Merida Province, Venezuela. On the other hand, Eufriesea laniventris (Ducke, 1902) was recently reported to be collected for the first time in the state of Amazonas but this species had already been recorded in the literature for this state almost two decades before. This older record is here reported, as well as a discussion on the role of geographic "first records" or "range extensions" of organisms.