Partamona musarum (Cockerell, 1917)
Trigona musarum
Cockerell, T. D. A (1917). New social bees. Psyche 24: 120-128 [123] .
Type data: holotype USNM 23171 <F>worker, paratype USNM <F>worker (1) , paratype AMNH 38008 <F>worker (1) .
Type locality: Philadelfia Banana R., Costa Rica, F. Knab.
Etymology: from Musa, banana.
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Colombia (Antioquia, Cundinamarca, Magdalena), Costa Rica (Cartago, Heredia, Limón, San José), Honduras (Atlántida, Colón, Olancho, Yoro), Panama (Chiriquí, Colón, Panamá, San Blas)
References
Camargo, J. M. F. (1980). O grupo Partamona (Partamona) testacea (Klug): suas espécies, distribuição e diferenciação geográfica (Meliponinae, Apidae, Hymenoptera). Acta Amazonica 10 (4, suplemento): 1-175 [9, 63-64, 74, 75, 164-166, 173-175] (as Partamona (Partamona) musarum, geographic records, key, diagnosis, nesting site: arboreal bird's nest - citation, taxonomy, figures)
Camargo, J. M. F. (1992). O grupo Partamona (Partamona) testacea (Klug): suas espécies, distribuição e diferenciação geográfica (Meliponinae, Apidae, Hymenoptera). [dissertation abstract] pp. 81-82 in Soares, A. E. E. & De Jong, D. (ed.) Pesquisas com abelhas no Brasil. Ribeirão Preto: Revista Brasileira de Genética 680 pp. [81, 82] (as Partamona (Partamona) musarum, taxonomy, biogeography)
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, 322-325, 327, 328, 368, 372] (nesting site: abandoned arboreal bird's nest, among roots of epiphytes and Anthurium, nest characteristics - citation, taxonomic characters, phylogeny, biogeography, geographic range)
Cunha, R. A. (1973). Taxonomia numérica de alguns Meliponinae (Hymenoptera- Apidae). Ciência Biológica (Portugal) 1: 25-42 [27 (reprint, page 3)] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona (Partamona) testacea musarum, unnumbered pages: figures 2-7, phenetic analysis, phenograms)
Cunha, R. A. (1991). Revisão da taxonomia de alguns Meliponinae por métodos fenéticos (Hym., Apidae). Naturalia (São Paulo) 16: 33-53 [36, 40, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 50] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona (Partamona) testacea musarum, OTU 29, phenetic analysis, phenograms)
Dodson, C. H. (1967). Relationships between pollinators and orchid flowers pp. 1-72 in Lent, H. (ed.) Atas do simpósio sôbre a biota amazônica Vol. 5: zoologia. Rio de Janeiro: Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas 603 pp. [19] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona testacea, male, flower record: Coelogyne lawrenciana (Orchidaceae))
Freire, J. A. H. & Gara, R. I. (1970). Algumas observações sobre o comportamento de algumas espécies do gênero Trigona (Apidae- Meliponini). Turrialba 20 (3): 351-356 [351, 352, 354, 355] (as Trigona (Partamona) testacea musarum, baits, resin collecting: Eucalyptus citriodora, daily activity)
Griswold, T., Parker, F. D. & Hanson, P. E. (1995). The bees (Apidae) pp. 650-691 in Hanson, P. E. & Gauld, I. D. (ed.) The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica. London: Natural History Museum 893 pp. [684, 690] (as Partamona peckolti, nest characteristics, citation, list)
Johnson, L. K. & Hubbell, S. P. (1974). Aggression and competition among stingless bees: field studies. Ecology 55: 120-127 [120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona testacea, geographic record, foraging behavior, artificial feeding, experiments, aggression)
Michener, C. D. (1954). Bees of Panamá. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 104 (1): 5-175 [170] (as Trigona (Partamona) testacea musarum, geographic record)
Michener, C. D. & Brooks, R. W. (1984). Comparative study of the glossae of bees (Apoidea). Contrib. Amer. Ent. Inst. 22 (1): 1-73 [62, 63] (as Trigona (Partamona) musarum, morphology, glossa, figure)
Nates Parra, G. (1983). Abejas de Colombia: I. Lista preliminar de algunas especies de abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae). Revista de Biologia Tropical 31 (1): 155-158 [156] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona (Partamona) testacea musarum, list, geographic record)
Pedro, S. R. M. & Camargo, J. M. F. (1997). A new species of Partamona (Hymenoptera: Apidae) endemic to eastern Panama and notes on P. grandipennis. Revista de Biologia Tropical 44, 45 (3, 1): 199-208 [207] (biogeography)
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 [1,2,8, 23, 28, 41-43, 45, 81-87, 96, 102, 107, 111] (key, synonymy, diagnosis, taxonomic characters, nesting site: abandoned bird's nest - citation, biogeography, geographic range, phylogeny, figures: worker, flower records: Crotalaria sp., Eupatorium sp., Mikania amblyolepsis, Solanum hayesi)
Ramalho, M., Kleinert-Giovannini, A. & Imperatriz-Fonseca, V. L. (1990). Important bee plants for stingless bees (Melipona and Trigonini) and Africanized honeybees (Apis mellifera) in neotropical habitats: a review. Apidologie 21: 469-488 [473] (as Partamona musarum, food resource, citation)
Rincón, M., Roubik, D. W., Finegan, B., Delgado, D., Zamora, N. (2000). Understory bees and floral resources in logged and silviculturally treated Costa Rican rainforest plots. J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 72 (4): 379-393 [384, 386] (managed forests, flower records: Ossaea (Melastomataceae), Prestoea (Arecaceae), Psychotria (Rubiaceae), Tovomitopsis (Clusiaceae))
Roubik, D. W. (1989). Ecology and natural history of tropical bees. New York: Cambridge University Press 1-514 +x pp. [108] (as Partamona peckolti, flower record: Bactris, daily activity, citation)
Roubik, D. W. (1992). Stingless Bees: A guide to Panamanian and Mesoamerican species and their nests (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae) pp. 495-524 in Quintero, D. & A. Aiello (ed.) Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica. Selected Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press 692 pp. [500, 503, 509, 511, 512, 523] (as Partamona peckolti musarum, key, figures, taxonomic notes, geographic range, nesting site: rootlet masses of bromeliads and other epiphytes, citation, nest characteristics, defense behavior, folk names: "zagaño", "enredapelos", list; as Partamona testacea, figure)
Roubik, D. W. (1993). Direct costs of forest reproduction, bee-cycling and the efficiency of pollination modes. Journal of Biosciences 18 (4): 537-553 [549] (as Partamona peckolti musarum, geographic range - Panama, nest census, citation)
Roubik, D. W. (2000). Deceptive orchids with Meliponini as pollinators. Plant Systematics and Evolution 222: 271-279 [273, 275] (flower record: Xylobium (Orchidaceae), figure: P. musarum with pollinarium of Xylobium)
Roubik, D. W., Enrique Moreno, J., Vergara, C. & Wittmann, D. (1986). Sporadic food competition with the African honey bee: projected impact on neotropical social bees. J. Trop. Ecol. 2: 97-111 [99, 101-103, 105, 106, 109] (as Trigona (Partamona) musarum, nectar, sugar concentration, pollen, competition, pollen records: Spondias raldkoferii, Pourouma guianensis, Cecropia insignis, Socratea durissima, Elaeis oleifera, Papilionoidea, Pouteria stiptata)
Roubik, D. W., Yanega, D., Aluja S., M., Buchmann, S. L. & Inouye, D. W. (1995). On optimal nectar foraging by some tropical bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Apidologie 26: 197-211 [206] (as Partamona peckolti, nectar, sugar concentration, citation)
Schwarz, H. F. (1934). The social bees (Meliponidae) of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. Am. Mus. Novit. 731: 1-23 [19] (as Trigona testacea musarum, taxonomic note, geographic record)
Smith-Pardo, A. H. (2003). A preliminary account of the bees of Colombia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea): present knowledge and future directions. J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 76 (2): 335-341 [338] (as Partamona (Partamona) peckolti musarum, list)
Wille, A. (1961). Evolutionary trends in the ventral nerve cord of stingless bees (Meliponini). Revista de Biologia Tropical 9 (1): 117-129 [117, 121] (as Trigona (Partamona) testacea musarum, ventral nerve cord)
Wille, A. (1983). Biology of the stingless bees. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 28: 41-64 [62] (as Trigona testacea musarum, defense behavior)
Wille, A. & C. D. Michener (1973). The nest architecture of stingless bees with special reference to those of Costa Rica. Rev. Biol. Trop. 21 (Suplemento 1): 1-278 [12, 21, 33, 45, 56, 67, 90, 91, 137, 138, 139, 265] (as Trigona (Partamona) testacea musarum, nesting site: semi-exposed, abandoned arboreal bird's nest, nest characteristics, defense behavior, figures: nests, honey)
Wille, A., Orozco, E. & Raabe, C. (1983). Polinización del chayote Sechium edule (Jacq.) Swartz en Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical 31 (1): 145-154 [146] (as Trigona (Partamona) testacea musarum, pollination: Sechium edule (Cucurbitaceae), geographic record)
Willmer, P. G. & Corbet, S. A. (1981). Temporal and microclimatic partitioning of the floral resources of Justicia aurea amongst a concourse of pollen vectors and nectar robbers. Oecologia (Berl.) 51 (1): 67-78 [69, 70, 71, 72] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona testacea, geographic record, foraging behavior, nectar robbing, flower record: Justicia aurea (Acanthaceae))
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