Seeking the flowers for the bees: Integrating biotic interactions into niche models to assess the distribution of the exotic bee species Lithurgus huberi in South America.

Highlights: [•] Distributions with and without the host plants were not different. [•] SVM had low performance when we considered all host plants distributions. [•] MaxEnt and SVM performed similarly while predicting the new L. huberi occurrences. [•] Northeastern, eastern and southeastern South America are indicated for surveys. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]