Partamona gregaria Pedro & Camargo, 2003
Partamona gregaria
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 [52] .
Type data: holotype RPSP 118c, nest number <F>worker , paratype RPSP 115c, 116c, 117c, 118c, nest numbers <F>workers (+105), <M>males (+10), <F>queen (1).
Type locality: São Luis do Tapajós, Pará, Brasil.
Etymology: from the Latin, gregarius, referring to the nests, which are constructed in aggregations of several nests in the same termitarium..
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Brazil (Amazonas [Maués, Parintins], Pará [Aveiro, Belterra, Capanema, Itaituba, Jacareacanga, Melgaço, Mocajuba])
References
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 [315-318, 322,324,331, 333,335-337, 344,361, 363, 369, 372] (nesting sites: arboreous exposed termitaria - strobilelike, hosts: Nasutitermes cf. tatarendae, Nasutitermes acangussu, Amitermes excellens, nest characteristics, taxonomic characters, phylogeny, biogeography, geographic range, figures: nests)
Chittka, L., Schorn, J., de Souza, J. M., Ventura, D. F. & Camargo, J. M. F. (1999). The nest entrance signal of the Amazonian bees Partamona pearsoni - a case where insects design their own flight targets pp. 107-116 in Kipyatkov, V. E. (ed.) Proceedings of the international colloquia on social insects Vol. 3-4. St. Petersburg: Socium 311 pp. [113] (as Partamona cupira, nest entrance)
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 [1,8,12,18, 52-54, 81-87, 96,97,99, 102, 107, 111] (key, synonymy, diagnosis, taxonomic characters, nesting sites: arboreous exposed termitaria - strobilelike, hosts: Nasutitermes cf. tatarendae, Nasutitermes acangussu, Amitermes excellens, biogeography, geographic range, phylogeny, figures: male, worker)
Silveira, O. T., Esposito, M. C., Santos, Jr., J. N. & Gemaque, Jr., F. E. (2005). Social wasps and bees captured in carrion traps in a rainforest in Brazil. Entomological Science 8: 33-39 [37] (geographic record, foraging, carrion traps, relative abundance)
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