Cephalotrigona Schwarz, 1940
Cephalotrigona
Schwarz, H. F. (1940). Additional species and records of stingless bees (Meliponidae) from British Guiana. Am. Mus. Novit. 1078: 1-12 [10] (first introduced as a subgenus of Trigona Jurine, 1807) .
Type species: Trigona capitata Smith, 1854
by original designation.
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Mexico (Campeche, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán de Ocampo, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Veracruz-Llave, Yucatán); Neotropical Region: Argentina (Misiones), Bolivia (Cochabamba, El Beni, La Paz), Brazil (Amapá [Macapá], Amazonas [Benjamin Constant, Beruri, Itacoatiara, Manaus], Bahia [Igrapiúna], Ceará [Baturité, Guaramiranga], Espírito Santo, Maranhão [Chapadinha, Urbano Santos], Mato Grosso [Chapada Dos Guimarães, Gaúcha Do Norte, Juína, Sinop], Minas Gerais [Araguari, Uberlândia], Paraná [Paranaguá], Pará [Anajás, Belém, Conceição Do Araguaia, Santarém, Óbidos], Rondônia, Santa Catarina [Blumenau, Seara], São Paulo [Bauru, Cajuru, Jundiaí, Ribeirão Preto, Rio Claro, Salesópolis, São Paulo]), Colombia (Cundinamarca, Magdalena, Meta), Costa Rica (Alajuela, Cartago, Guanacaste, Heredia, Puntarenas, San José), El Salvador, French Guiana (Kourou), Guatemala (Izabal, Santa Rosa, Zacapa), Guyana (Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Mahaica-Berbice, Potaro-Siparuni, Upper Demerara-Berbice), Honduras (Colón, Francisco Morazán), Nicaragua (Chontales), Panama (Chiriquí, Coclé, Colón, Darién, Panamá), Panama Canal Zone, Paraguay (Alto Paraguay, Alto Paraná), Peru (Junín, Loreto), Suriname (Marowijne, Para), Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela (Bolívar)
References
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Schwarz, H. F. (1948). Stingless bees (Meliponidae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 90: xvii+546 [ix, 6,7, 64, 170, 172, 352, 430, 437-446, 450, 451, 457-459] (as Trigona (Cephalotrigona), phylogeny - citation, taxonomic characters, keys, synonymy, diagnosis, redescription: worker, queen, male, taxonomy, citation: nesting site: in tree trunk, nest characteristics, royal cells, virgin queens, nest population)
Silveira, F. A., G. A. R. Melo & E. A. B. Almeida (2002). Abelhas Brasileiras: Sistemática e Identificação. Belo Horizonte: F. A. Silveira 253 pp. [39, 80, 82, 87] (biogeography, figure, key, species list)
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Online since: 23 Jul 2008
Last update : 17 Jul 2023