Paratrigona guatemalensis (Schwarz, 1938)
Common Name: "chelerita"
Trigona (Paratrigona) opaca guatemalensis
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 AMNH <F> worker , paratype AMNH <F> workers (?) , paratype BEQUAERT <F> worker , paratype RPSP 24314 <F> workers (4) , paratype DZUP 24314 <F> worker (1) , paratype CUIC 2608 <F> workers (2).
Type locality: Chiquimulilla, Santa Rosa, Guatemala, 300 m elev., III.1923, Lichy René.
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Mexico (Chiapas, Veracruz-Llave); Neotropical Region: Costa Rica, Guatemala (Santa Rosa), Mexico
References
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Bravo, F. (1993). Descrição dos ninhos de Parapartamona zonata (Smith, 1854) e Parapartamona brevipilosa (Schwarz, 1948) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae) coletados nos andes equatorianos. Rev. Bras. Entomol. 37 (4): 779-785 [784] (nesting site: partially exposed)
Camargo, J. M. F. (1996). Meliponini neotropicais (Apinae, Apidae, Hymenoptera): biogeografia histórica pp. 107-121 in Garófalo, C. A., Soares, A. E. E., Paulino-Simões, Z. L. & Camillo, E. (ed.) Anais do II Encontro Sobre Abelhas. Ribeirão Preto: Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto xxii+351 pp. [109, 110, 113, 115, 118, 119] (biogeography, biogeographical components, phylogeny)
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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 [21] (nest, geographic range)
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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, citation)
Moure, J. S. (1963). Sôbre a identidade dos meliponinos descritos por Spinola em 1853 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). An. Acad. Bras. Cienc. (Rio de Janeiro) 35 (2): 257-269 [266] (as Paratrigona (Paratrigona) guatemalensis, taxonomic note)
Moure, J. S. (1989). Duas espécies novas de Paratrigona da região Amazônica (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Rev. Bras. Zool. 6 (3): 443-448 [443, 445] (taxonomy)
Nates- Parra, G., González-B, V. H. & Ospina- Torres, R. (1999). Descripcion de los machos y anotaciones sobre la biología de Paratrigona anduzei y P. eutaeniata (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) en Colombia. Caldasia 21(2): 174-183 [174, 182] (taxonomic note, nest characteristics, citation)
Pereboom, J. J. M. & Biesmeijer, J. C. (2003). Thermal constraints for stingless bee foragers: the importance of body size and coloration. Oecologia (Berl.) 137: 42-50 [43, 44] (body coloration, thermal characteristics, phylogeny, citation)
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] (as Trigona (Paratrigona) opaca var. guatemalensis, description, taxonomy)
Schwarz, H. F. (1948). Stingless bees (Meliponidae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 90: xvii+546 [116, 352, 355, 373, 378-379, 380, 381, 382] (as Trigona (Paratrigona) opaca var. guatemalensis, hamuli, taxonomy, key, diagnosis, geographic range)
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Wille, A. (1983). Biology of the stingless bees. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 28: 41-64 [47, 60, 62] (as Trigona (Paratrigona) guatemalensis, batumen, honey, defense behavior, citation)
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, 45, 56, 67, 83, 89, 137, 140-143, 154, 155, 264, 265] (as Trigona (Paratrigona) guatemalensis, nesting site: exposed, nest characteristics, aggressiveness, honey, figures: nest)
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