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Geotrigona subnigra (Schwarz, 1940)

Trigona (Tetragona) subgrisea subnigra Schwarz, H. F. (1940). Additional species and records of stingless bees (Meliponidae) from British Guiana. Am. Mus. Novit. 1078: 1-12 [8] .
Type data: holotype AMNH 36159 <F> worker.
Type locality: British Guiana, Upper Essequibo River, 13.XII.1937, W. G. Wassler leg..

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Brazil (Amapá, Amazonas [Manaus], Pará [Oriximiná]), Guyana (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo)

References

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 [105,139,144-145,147,153,155,156,157,159] (key, synonymy, diagnosis, holotype redescription, geographic records, geographic range, taxonomy, phylogeny, figure)
Gonzalez, V. H. & Engel, M. S. (2012). A new species of Geotrigona Moure from the Caribbean coast of Colombia (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 172: 77-87 [79, 84] (distribution, citation, key)
Oliveira, M. L. (2001). Stingless bees (Meliponini) and orchid bees (Euglossini) in terra firme tropical forests and forest fragments pp. 208-218 in Bierregaard, Jr., R. O., Gascon, C., Lovejoy, T. E. & Mesquita, R. C. G. (ed.) Lessons from Amazonia. The ecology and conservation of a fragmented forest. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Yale University Press, Smithsonian Institution [210] (as Geotrigona subgrisea subnigra, list)
Oliveira, M. L., Morato, E. F. & Garcia, M. V. B. (1995). Diversidade de espécies e densidade de ninhos de abelhas sociais sem ferrão (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae) em floresta de terra firme na Amazônia Central. Rev. Bras. Zool. 12 (1): 13-24 [16, 18] (as Geotrigona subgrisea subnigra, list)
Rudow, F. (1914). Die Wohnungen der honigsammeiden Bienen Anthophilidae. Entomol. Z. 27 (41): 240-242 [241] (? uncertain identity, as Melipona subterranea, nest characteristics [nest from Venezuela])
Silveira, F. A., G. A. R. Melo & E. A. B. Almeida (2002). Abelhas Brasileiras: Sistemática e Identificação. Belo Horizonte: F. A. Silveira 253 pp. [87] (list, geographic range)

How to cite this page
J. M. F. Camargo, S. R. M. Pedro & G. A. R. Melo, 2023. Meliponini Lepeletier, 1836. In Moure, J. S., Urban, D. & Melo, G. A. R. (Orgs). Catalogue of Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in the Neotropical Region - online version. Available at https://www.moure.cria.org.br/catalogue. Accessed Sep/08/2024

Online since: 23 Jul 2008
Last update : 17 Jul 2023