Paratrigona ornaticeps (Schwarz, 1938)
Trigona (Paratrigona) opaca ornaticeps
Schwarz, H. F. (1938). The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of British Guiana and some related forms. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 74: 437-508 [495] .
Type data: holotype CUIC 2612 <F> worker.
Type locality: Changuinola District, Bocas de Toro, Panama, 21.V.1924, J. C. Bradley leg..
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Costa Rica (Cartago, Limón, Puntarenas, San José), Panama (Bocas del Toro, Chiriquí, Coclé, Colón, Panamá)
References
Camargo, J. M. F. & J. S. Moure (1994). Meliponinae Neotropicais: Os gêneros Paratrigona Schwarz, 1938 e Aparatrigona Moure, 1951 (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Arq. Zool. (São Paulo) 32 (2): 33-109 [37,38,40, 44,46, 58,59-60,61, 86-88,90, 92,93,97] (biogeography, key, taxonomy, synonymy, diagnosis, geographic records, flower record: Clethra lanata, geographic range, nesting sites: tree cavities - citation, phylogeny, figures)
Camargo, J. M. F. & J. S. Moure (1996). Meliponini Neotropicais: o gênero Geotrigona Moure, 1943 (Apinae, Apidae, Hymenoptera), com especial referência à filogenia e biogeografia. Arq. Zool. (São Paulo) 33 (3): 95-161 [103] (geographic range)
Gonzalez, V. H. & Griswold, T. L. (2011). Two new species of Paratrigona and the male of Paratrigona ornaticeps (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 120: 9-25 [9, 10, 14, 18-20, 21, 24] (diagnosis, male description, geographic records, figures, identification key)
Gonzalez, V. H. & Vélez, D. (2007). Una especie nueva de Paratrigona (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Meliponini), con una sinopsis del género en Colombia. Bol. Mus. Ent. Valle 8 (2): 9-13 [9, 11] (note, citation)
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] (nesting site: tree, nest characteristics, list)
Laroca, S. & Almeida, M. C. (1989). Coexistência entre abelhas sem ferrão e formigas: ninho de Paratrigona myrmecophila (Apidae) construído em ninho de Camponotus senex (Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 6(4): 671-680 [679] (nest entrance)
Michener, C. D. (1954). Bees of Panamá. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 104 (1): 5-175 [167] (as Trigona (Paratrigona) ornaticeps, synonymy, taxonomic note, geographic record, altitudinal record)
Michener, C. D. & Roubik, D. W. (1993). Observations on the labium of meliponine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) pp. 251-265 in Inoue, T. & Yamane, S. (ed.) Evolution of insect societies: Comparative sociology of bees, wasps and ants. Tokyo: Hakuhin-sha Publishing Co. [255] (morphology, labium)
Moure, J. S. (1960). Abelhas da região neotropical descritas por G. Gribodo (Hymenoptera-Apoidea). Bol. Univ. Paraná 1: 1-18 [18] (as Paratrigona (Paratrigona) ornaticeps ornaticeps, taxonomic note)
Nates-Parra, G. (2001). Las abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 2 (3): 233-248 [239] (? uncertain identity, geographic record, altitudinal record)
Roubik, D. W. (1983). Nest and colony characteristics of stingless bees from Panamá (Hymenoptera: Apidae). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 53 (6): 327-355 [330, 331, 335, 339, 346, 352] (as Trigona (Paratrigona) ornaticeps, nest characteristics, nesting site: tree cavities, geographic record, nest population, nest abundance)
Roubik, D. W. (1990). A mixed colony of Eulaema (Hyemnoptera: Apidae), natural enemies, and limits to sociality. J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 63 (1): 150-157 [150] (as Trigona (Paratrigona) ornaticeps, nest, note, 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. [502, 513, 516, 523] (as Paratrigona ornaticeps ornaticeps, key, figure, synonymy, geographic range - partim, diagnosis, nesting site: within living trees, nest entrance, defense behavior)
Roubik, D. W. (1993). Direct costs of forest reproduction, bee-cycling and the efficiency of pollination modes. Journal of Biosciences 18 (4): 537-553 [548] (geographic range, nest abundance)
Roubik, D. W. (2002). Feral African bees augment neotropical coffee yeld pp. 255-266 in Kevan, P. G. & Imperatriz-Fonseca, V. L. I. (ed.) Pollinating bees: The Conservation link between agriculture and nature. Brasilia: Ministry of Environment 313 pp. [259] (flower record: Coffea arabica (Rubiaceae))
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 [78] (altitudinal record)
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 [199, 203] (nectar, sugar concentration)
Sakagami, S. F., Roubik, D. W. & Zucchi, R. (1993). Ethology of the robber stingless bee, Lestrimelitta limao (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Sociobiology 21 (2): 237-277 [243, 260, 261] (Lestrimelitta raids, alarm behavior)
Schwarz, H. F. (1938). The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of British Guiana and some related forms. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 74: 437-508 [495, 496, 497] (as Trigona (Paratrigona) opaca variety ornaticeps, taxonomy, figures (plate 59, D,D'))
Schwarz, H. F. (1948). Stingless bees (Meliponidae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 90: xvii+546 [116, 352, 355, 358, 379, 381-383, 397] (as Trigona (Paratrigona) opaca variety ornaticeps, hamuli, key, figures, description [from Schwarz, 1938], taxonomy, geographic record, geographic range)
Wille, A. (1983). Biology of the stingless bees. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 28: 41-64 [60] (as Trigona ornaticeps, honey)
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, 22, 45, 56, 67, 99, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 265] (as Trigona (Paratrigona) ornaticeps, synonymy, nesting site: tree cavities, rotten Cecropia logs, nest characteristics, figures: nest, honey, agressiveness)
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 (Paratrigona) ornaticeps, flower record: Sechium edule (Cucurbitaceae), geographic record)
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Last update : 17 Jul 2023