Partamona auripennis Pedro & Camargo, 2003
Partamona auripennis
Pedro, S. R. M. & Camargo, J. M. F. (2003). Meliponini neotropicais: o gênero Partamona Schwarz, 1939 (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 47 (Supl. 1): 1-117 [59] .
Type data: holotype RPSP 168c, nest number <F>worker , paratype RPSP 168c, nest number <F>workers (+40)<M>males (6) , paratype SEMK 168c, nest number <F>worker (1).
Type locality: Tauari, Pará, rio Tapajós, Brasil.
Etymology: from the Latin, aureus = golden, + penna = wing.
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Brazil (Amapá [Oiapoque, Serra Do Navio], Amazonas [Fonte Boa, Itacoatiara, Manaus, São Gabriel Da Cachoeira, Tefé], Pará [Capanema, Jacareacanga, Mocajuba, Oriximiná, Santarém]), Colombia (Meta), French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela (Amazonas)
References
Camargo, J. M. F. (1994). Biogeografia de Meliponini (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae): a fauna amazônica pp. 46-59 in Zucchi, R., Drumond, P. M., Fernandes-da-Silva, P. G. & Augusto, S. C. (ed.) Anais do I Encontro Sobre Abelhas. Ribeirão Preto: Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo xx+308 pp. [50] (as Partamona nigrior, list)
Camargo, J. M. F. & Pedro, S. R. M. (2003). Meliponini neotropicais: o gênero Partamona Schwarz, 1939 (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae) - bionomia e biogeografia. Rev. Bras. Entomol. 47 (3): 311-372 [314, 316, 317, 322-232, 325, 332-333, 340, 352, 369, 372] (nesting sites: external arboreous termite nest, nest architecture, taxonomic characters, phylogeny, biogeography, geographic range, nest figures)
Dijn, B. P. E. & Koanting, E. (1999). The knowledge of stingless bees, or tyandaaman, at the Maroon village of Nieuw Koffiekamp in Suriname, South America. Pegone ?: 15-17 [16] (? uncertain identity, as Partamona cf. nigrior, geographic record, ethnobiology, Maroon indians, nest, folk name: "tyandaaman")
Engel, M. S. & Dingemans-Bakels, F. (1980). Nectar and pollen resources for stingless bees (Meliponinae, Hymenoptera) in Surinam (South America). Apidologie 11 (4): 341-350 [346, 350] (? uncertain identity, as Partamona 1 (= Partamona cupira), flower records: Phoradendron piperoides, Solanum sp.)
Oliveira, M. L. (2001). Stingless bees (Meliponini) and orchid bees (Euglossini) in terra firme tropical forests and forest fragments pp. 208-218 in Bierregaard, Jr., R. O., Gascon, C., Lovejoy, T. E. & Mesquita, R. C. G. (ed.) Lessons from Amazonia. The ecology and conservation of a fragmented forest. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Yale University Press, Smithsonian Institution [210] (as Partamona cf. nigrior, forest fragments)
Oliveira, M. L., Morato, E. F. & Garcia, M. V. B. (1995). Diversidade de espécies e densidade de ninhos de abelhas sociais sem ferrão (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae) em floresta de terra firme na Amazônia Central. Rev. Bras. Zool. 12 (1): 13-24 [16, 18] (as Partamona cf. nigrior, forest fragments, odor baits: methyl salicylate)
Pedro, S. R. M. & Camargo, J. M. F. (2003). Meliponini neotropicais: o gênero Partamona Schwarz, 1939 (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 47 (Supl. 1): 1-117 [1,8,10,12,13,17,59-60,62,64,81-87,89,96,98,100,102,108,111] (key, synonymy, diagnosis, taxonomic characters, nesting sites: external arboreous termite nest, geographic range, biogeography, phylogeny, figures: male, worker)
Roubik, D. W. (1979). Nest and colony characteristics of stingless bees from French Guiana (Hymenoptera: Apidae). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 52 (3): 443-470 [445, 446, 450, 452, 457, 465] (nesting site: exposed termite nest, in Byrsonima crassifolia, nest architecture, resources and colony population)
Roubik, D. W. (1996). African honey bees as exotic pollinators in French Guiana pp. 173-182 in Matheson, A., Buchmann, S. L., O'Toole, C., Westrich, P. & Willams, I. H. (ed.) The conservation of bees. San Diego: Linnean Society of London and the International Bee Research Association 12(s/n) + 254 pp. [178] (? uncertain identity, as Partamona nigrior, flower record: Mimosa pudica)
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