APIDAE ›› Apinae ›› Meliponini

Plebeia Schwarz, 1938
Plebeia Schwarz, H. F. (1938). The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of British Guiana and some related forms. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 74: 437-508 [480] (first introduced as a subgenus of Trigona Jurine, 1807) .
Type species: Trigona mosquito Smith, 1863 by original designation.

Distribution

Nearctic Region: Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán de Ocampo, Morelos, México, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Veracruz-Llave, Yucatán, Zacatecas); Neotropical Region: Argentina (Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Córdoba, Formosa, Jujuy, La Rioja, Misiones, Salta, San Luis, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán), Bolivia (Santa Cruz), Brazil (Acre, Alagoas [Quebrangulo], Amapá [Macapá, Mazagão], Amazonas [Japurá, Manaus, Tabatinga], Bahia [Boninal, Casa Nova, Igrapiúna, Ilhéus, Lençóis, Mata De São João, Morro Do Chapéu, Porto Seguro, Salvador, Una], Ceará [Mulungu], Espírito Santo [Domingos Martins, Guarapari, Linhares, Santa Teresa, Venda Nova Do Imigrante], Maranhão [Barreirinhas, São Luís], Mato Grosso [Juína, Nova Ubiratã, Vila Bela Da Santíssima Trindade], Mato Grosso do Sul [Bodoquena, Bonito, Corumbá, Jardim], Minas Gerais [Araguari, Barbacena, Caldas, Paraopeba, Ponte Nova, Poços De Caldas, Uberlândia, Viçosa], Paraná [Boa Vista Da Aparecida, Curitiba, Guarapuava, Lapa, Londrina, Morretes, Palotina, Paranaguá, Ponta Grossa, Prudentópolis, São José Dos Pinhais], Paraíba [Guarabira, João Pessoa, Mamanguape, Seridó], Pará [Belém, Chaves, Conceição Do Araguaia, Cumaru Do Norte, Itaituba, Jacareacanga, Melgaço, Monte Alegre, Parauapebas, Santarém, Óbidos], Pernambuco [Igarassu, Recife], Piauí [Brejo Do Piauí], Rio Grande do Sul [Alegrete, Bagé, Barão De Cotegipe, Bento Gonçalves, Cambará Do Sul, Campo Bom, Canela, Canguçu, Caxias Do Sul, Caçapava Do Sul, Farroupilha, Feliz, General Câmara, Gramado, Guarani Das Missões, Guaíba, Lavras Do Sul, Nova Petrópolis, Osório, Panambi, Passo Fundo, Pelotas, Planalto, Porto Alegre, Riozinho, Rolante, Santana Da Boa Vista, São Francisco De Paula, São Leopoldo, São Lourenço Do Sul, Taquara, Taquari, Tenente Portela, Torres, Tramandaí, Triunfo, Três Coroas, Uruguaiana, Vacaria, Viamão], Rio de Janeiro [Macaé, Nova Iguaçu, Petrópolis, Rio De Janeiro, Santa Maria Madalena], Rondônia [Pimenta Bueno], Santa Catarina [Blumenau, Campo Alegre, Caçador, Florianópolis, Herval DOeste, Joinville, Lages, Luzerna, Mafra, Rio Negrinho, São Bento Do Sul, São Francisco Do Sul, Três Barras], Sergipe [Santa Luzia Do Itanhy], São Paulo [Araraquara, Cajuru, Campinas, Campos Do Jordão, Corumbataí, Cunha, Franca, Guarulhos, Itatiba, Jundiaí, Peruíbe, Piracicaba, Presidente Prudente, Ribeirão Preto, Rio Claro, Salesópolis, Santana De Parnaíba, Santos, São Paulo, São Simão, Tupi Paulista, Ubatuba]), Colombia (Cundinamarca, Tolima), Costa Rica (Alajuela, Cartago, Guanacaste, Heredia, Limón, Puntarenas, San José), Guatemala (Izabal, Suchitepéquez), Honduras (Francisco Morazán), Nicaragua (Chinandega), Panama (Chiriquí, Coclé, Colón), Panama Canal Zone, Paraguay (Alto Paraná, Guairá, Misiones, Paraguarí), Peru (Loreto, Madre de Dios, San Martín, Ucayali), Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (Montevideo), Venezuela (Guárico, Mérida, Trujillo)

References

Camargo, J. M. F. (1989). Comentários sobre a sistemática de Meliponinae (Hymen. Apidae) pp. 41-61 in Watanabe, S. (ed.) Anais do XIV Simpósio Anual da ACIESP, suplemento. São Paulo: Academia de Ciências do Estado de São Paulo, publicação no. 68 61 pp. [43, 46, 47, 48, 49, 55, 56, 58, 59, 61] (taxonomy, classification, biogeography, geographic range, number of species)
Camargo, J. M. F. & J. S. Moure (1988). Notas sobre os Meliponinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae) colecionados por Filippo Silvestri na bacia do Rio da Prata. Rev. Bras. Entomol. 32 (2): 293-314 [293-295] (generic status, by inference)
Camargo, J. M. F. & Pedro, S. R. M. (1992). Sistemática de Meliponinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae): sobre a polaridade e significado de alguns caracteres morfológicos pp. 45-49 in Cruz Landim, C. & Chaud Netto, J. (ed.) Anais do Encontro Brasileiro de Biologia de Abelhas e Outros Insetos Sociais. Homenagem aos 70 anos de Warwick Estevam Kerr. São Paulo: Naturalia, número especial, Editora UNESP 283 pp. [45, 46, 48, 49] (taxonomic characters, phylogeny)
Camargo, J. M. F. & Pedro, S. R. M. (1992). Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of the Meliponinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae): a mini-review. Apidologie 23: 509-522 [511-512, 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520] (classification, taxonomy)
Camargo, J. M. F. & Wittmann, D. (1989). Nest architecture and distribution of the primitive stingless bee, Mourella caerulea (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae): evidence for the origin of Plebeia (s. lat.) on the Gondwana Continent. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 24 (4): 213-229 [225, 226, 227] (as Plebeia (s. str.), biogeography, phylogeny)
Engel, M. S. (2000). A new interpretation of the Oldest fossil bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Am. Mus. Novit. 3296: 1-11 [8] (phylogeny)
Michener, C. D. (1990). Classification of the Apidae (Hymenoptera). Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 54 (4): 75-164 [75, 87, 97, 98, 103, 107, 113, 114, 118, 134] (as Plebeia (Plebeia) and Plebeia s.str., partim, cells arrangement, behavior, worker oviposition, chromosomes number (n=18), synonymy, diagnosis, taxonomic notes, geographic range, species list, comparative notes)
Michener, C. D. (2000). The bees of the World. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 913 pp. [70, 780, 791, 794, 797-798] (as Plebeia (Plebeia) and Plebeia s. str., partim, number of species, figure: hind tibia and basitarsus, cells arrangement, comparative notes, key, synonymy, diagnosis, geographic range, nesting site: tree cavities)
Moure, J. S. (1951). Notas sôbre Meliponinae (Hymenopt. - Apoidea). Dusenia 2 (1): 25-70 [26, 34, 51, 53-54, 67, 70] (as Plebeia (Plebeia), phylogeny, comparative notes, classification, diagnosis, keys)
Moure, J. S. (1971). Descrição de uma nova espécie de Tetragona do Brasil Central (Hymenoptera - Apidae). Bol. Univ. Fed. Paraná 4 (10): 47-50 [47] (generic status, by inference)
Schwarz, H. F. (1948). Stingless bees (Meliponidae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 90: xvii+546 [ix, 6, 8, 170, 173, 352, 445, 503] (as Trigona (Plebeia), classification, taxonomic notes, keys, comparative notes)
Wille, A. (1979). Phylogeny and relationships among the genera and subgenera of the stingless bees (Meliponinae) of the world. Revista de Biologia Tropical 27 (2): 241-277 [241, 250, 258, 260, 261, 262, 267, 269] (as Trigona (Plebeia), partim, taxonomic characters, classification, taxonomic notes)

Online since: 23 Jul 2008
Last update : 17 Jul 2023

Available Species

Plebeia alvarengai Moure, 1994
Plebeia catamarcensis (Holmberg, 1903)
Plebeia cora Ayala, 1999
Plebeia droryana (Friese, 1900)
Plebeia emerina (Friese, 1900)
Plebeia flavocincta (Cockerell, 1912)
Plebeia franki (Friese, 1900)
Plebeia fraterna Laroca & Rodriguez-Parilli, 2009
Plebeia frontalis (Friese, 1911)
Plebeia fulvopilosa Ayala, 1999
Plebeia goeldiana (Friese, 1900)
Plebeia grapiuna Melo & Costa, 2009
Plebeia guazurary Alvarez, Rasmussen & Abrahamovich, 2016
Plebeia jatiformis (Cockerell, 1912)
Plebeia julianii Moure, 1962
Plebeia kerri Moure, 1950
Plebeia llorentei Ayala, 1999
Plebeia lucii Moure, 2004
Plebeia malaris Moure, 1962
Plebeia manantlensis Ayala, 1999
Plebeia mansita Alvarez & Rasmussen, 2021
Plebeia margaritae Moure, 1962
Plebeia melanica Ayala, 1999
Plebeia meridionalis (Ducke, 1916)
Plebeia mexica Ayala, 1999
Plebeia minima (Gribodo, 1893)
Plebeia molesta (Puls, in Strobel, 1868)
Plebeia mosquito (Smith, 1863)
Plebeia moureana Ayala, 1999
Plebeia nigriceps (Friese, 1901)
Plebeia parkeri Ayala, 1999
Plebeia peruvicola Moure, 1994
Plebeia phrynostoma Moure, 2004
Plebeia poecilochroa Moure & Camargo, 1993
Plebeia pulchra Ayala, 1999
Plebeia remota (Holmberg, 1903)
Plebeia saiqui (Friese, 1900)
Plebeia tica (Wille, 1969)
Plebeia tobagoensis Melo, 2003
Plebeia variicolor (Ducke, 1916)
Plebeia wittmanni Moure & Camargo, 1989

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