Meliwillea Roubik, Lobo & Camargo, 1997
Meliwillea
Roubik, D. W., Lobo Segura, J. A. & Camargo, J. M. F. (1997). New stingless bee genus endemic to Central American cloudforest: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Syst. Entomol. 22: 67-80 [68] .
Type species: Meliwillea bivia Roubik, Lobo & Camargo, 1997
by original designation.
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Costa Rica (Cartago, Puntarenas, San José), Panama (Chiriquí)
References
Costa, M. A., Del Lama, M. A., Melo, G. A. R. & Sheppard, W. S. (2003). Molecular phylogeny of the stingless bees (Apidae, Apinae, Meliponini) inferred from mitochondrial 16S rDNA sequences. Apidologie 34: 73-84 [75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82] (molecular phylogeny, 16S rDNA)
Michener, C. D. (2000). The bees of the World. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 913 pp. [70, 790, 795] (key, diagnosis, taxonomy, geographic range, species included)
Oliveira, F. F. (2002). The mesotibial spur in stingless bees: a new character for the systematics of Meliponini (Hymenoptera: Apidae). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 75(3): 194-202 [195, 196] (mesotibial spur)
Online since: 23 Jul 2008
Last update : 17 Jul 2023