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First Reported Case of Fatal Stinging by the Large Carpenter Bee Xylocopa tranquebarica  Senanayake A.M. Kularatne, MBBS, MD, MRCP, FRCP (Lond), Sathasivam.

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1 First Reported Case of Fatal Stinging by the Large Carpenter Bee Xylocopa tranquebarica 
Senanayake A.M. Kularatne, MBBS, MD, MRCP, FRCP (Lond), Sathasivam Raveendran, MBBS, Jayanthi Edirisinghe, PhD, Inoka Karunaratne, PhD, Kosala Weerakoon, MBBS, MPhil  Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages (June 2016) DOI: /j.wem Copyright © 2016 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 Dead tree trunk with nest entrance holes from where the killer bee, Xylocopa tranquebarica, emerged. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  , DOI: ( /j.wem ) Copyright © 2016 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

3 Figure 2 Female Xylocopa tranquebarica collected from the nest site in Puttalam. Inset, Tip of the abdomen showing the stinger (length of the body, 25 mm). Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  , DOI: ( /j.wem ) Copyright © 2016 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

4 Figure 3 The offending Xylocopa tranquebarica. Note the partly broken stinging apparatus at the posterior end of the abdomen (length of the body, 27 mm). Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  , DOI: ( /j.wem ) Copyright © 2016 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

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