Partamona ferreirai Pedro & Camargo, 2003
Partamona ferreirai
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 [51] .
Type data: holotype RPSP 183c, nest number <F>worker , paratype RPSP 181c, 182c, 183c, 184c, 186c nest numbers <F>workers (+160), <M>males (+7), <F>queen (1).
Type locality: Lago Água Fria, Rio Trombetas, Pará, Brasil.
Etymology: homage to Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira.
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Brazil (Amapá [Serra Do Navio], Amazonas [Alvarães, Barcelos, Iranduba, Manaus, Maraã, Novo Airão, Santa Isabel Do Rio Negro, São Gabriel Da Cachoeira], Pará [Oriximiná, Óbidos], Roraima [Amajari]), French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela (Bolívar)
References
Camargo, J. M. F. (1988). Meliponinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae) da coleção do "Istituto di Entomologia Agraria", Portici, Itália. Rev. Bras. Entomol. 32 (3/4): 351–374 [357] (? uncertain identity, as Partamona aff. cupira, partim: Surinam)
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, 316-318, 321, 322, 324, 325, 330, 333, 334, 337] (344, 357, 358, 369, 372; nesting sites: termite nests inside dead trunks and dried branches of trees, hosts: Termes cf. hispaniolae, nest architecture, taxonomic characters, phylogeny, biogeography, geographic range, figures: nest)
Fain, A. & Rosa, A. E. (1983). Acari domum meliponinarum brasiliensium habitantes II. - two new genera and species of mites (Acari, Astigmata) from the nests of bees in Brasil. Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. 55 (2): 1-13 [6] (as Partamona sp.n., inquiline mites: Partamonacoptes brasiliensis)
Fain, A. & Rosa, A. E. (1983). Acari domum meliponinarum brasiliensium habitantes IV. new astigmatic mites from the nest of the bee Partamona sp. (Meliponidae). Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. 55 (3): 1-13 [1, 5, 10, 11] (as Partamona sp., inquiline mites: Meliponocoptes nidicolus, M. scutatus, M. orphanus, Meliponoecius flechtmanni)
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, 12,13, 18-19,51-52, 54,81-87, 89,96,98,99, 102,108, 111] (key, synonymy, diagnosis, taxonomic characters, nesting sites: termite nests inside dead trunks and dried branches of trees, hosts: Termes cf. hispaniolae, biogeography, geographic range, phylogeny, figures: male, worker, flower record: Convolvulus and "purple legume vine")
Rech, A.R. & Absy, M.L. (2011). Pollen storages in nests of bees of the genera Partamona, Scaura and Trigona (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 55 (3): 361-372 [363] (Distribution)
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