Meliwillea bivea Roubik, Lobo & Camargo, 1997
Meliwillea bivea
Roubik, D. W., Lobo Segura, J. A. & Camargo, J. M. F. (1997). New stingless bee genus endemic to Central American cloudforest: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Syst. Entomol. 22: 67-80 [72] .
Type data: holotype USNM <F> worker , allotype RPSP <M> male , paratype AMNH <F> workers (2) , paratype RPSP <F> workers (2) , paratype RPSP <F> workers (12) , paratype RPSP <F> worker (1) , paratype RPSP <F> worker (1) , paratype RPSP <F> workers (3), <M> male (1) , paratype STRI <F> workers (15?) , paratype STRI <F> workers (3?) , paratype BMNH <F> worker (1) , paratype USNM <F> workers (?) , paratype STRI <F> workers (?) , paratype SEMK <F> workers (?).
Type locality: Costa Rica, San José, Braulio Carrillo Nat. Park, 8.xii.1981, Roubik.
Etymology: from the Latin, bivius, meaning to have two paths [by a lapsus the name was incorrectly spelled as bivea by the authors].
Trigona (Oxytrigona) sarothrum
Roubik, D. W., Lobo Segura, J. A. & Camargo, J. M. F. (1997). New stingless bee genus endemic to Central American cloudforest: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Syst. Entomol. 22: 67-80 [77] (nom. nud., Roubik et al., 1997 examined one worker (deposited at BMNH) labeled as Trigona (Oxytrigona) sarothrum - paratype, by H. F. Schwarz, but this author never published the name) .
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Roubik, D. W., Lobo Segura, J. A. & Camargo, J. M. F. (1997). New stingless bee genus endemic to Central American cloudforest: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Syst. Entomol. 22: 67-80 [76, 77]
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Costa Rica (Cartago, Puntarenas, San José), Panama (Chiriquí)
References
Camargo, J. M. F. & Roubik, D. W. (2005). Neotropical Meliponini: Paratrigonoides mayri, new genus and species from western Colombia (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae) and phylogeny of related genera. Zootaxa 1081: 33-45 [40, 43] (taxonomic characters, phylogeny)
Costa, M. A., Del Lama, M. A., Melo, G. A. R. & Sheppard, W. S. (2003). Molecular phylogeny of the stingless bees (Apidae, Apinae, Meliponini) inferred from mitochondrial 16S rDNA sequences. Apidologie 34: 73-84 [75] (list, 16S rDNA, molecular phylogeny)
Michener, C. D. (1997). Genus-group names of bees and supplemental family-group names. Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, The Uni 1: 1-81 [37] (genus type species, citation)
Michener, C. D. (2000). The bees of the World. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 913 pp. [795] (taxonomic note)
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 [93, 94] (figures)
Roubik, D. W., Lobo Segura, J. A. & Camargo, J. M. F. (1997). New stingless bee genus endemic to Central American cloudforest: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Syst. Entomol. 22: 67-80 [67-80] (description, diagnosis, taxonomy, phylogeny, geographic range, altitudinal range, biogeography, figures: male, worker, nesting site: tree hollows, flower record: Miconia (Melastomataceae))
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