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Proplebeia vetusta Camargo, Grimaldi & Pedro, 2000

Proplebeia vetusta Camargo, J. M. F., Grimaldi, D. A. & Pedro, S. R. M. (2000). The extinct fauna of stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) in Dominican Amber: two new species and redescription of the male of Proplebeia dominicana (Wille & Chandler). Am. Mus. Novit. 3293: 1-24 [11] .
Type data: holotype AMNH AMNH-DR-14-1481 <F> worker , paratype AMNH AMNH-DR- 14-854, 14-1440 <F> workers (2).
Type locality: Dominican Republic, Miocene amber.
Etymology: from the Latin, vetustus, old, ancient.

Distribution

Fossil taxon

References

Camargo, J. M. F., Grimaldi, D. A. & Pedro, S. R. M. (2000). The extinct fauna of stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) in Dominican Amber: two new species and redescription of the male of Proplebeia dominicana (Wille & Chandler). Am. Mus. Novit. 3293: 1-24 [11-13, 14, 15, 20, 21] (synonymy, diagnosis, description, taxonomy, figures: forewing, hind tibia and basitarsus, head, mandible, holotype, paratype, worker)
Engel, M. S. (2001). A monograph of the Baltic amber bees and evolution of the Apoidea (Hymenoptera). Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 259: 1-192 [9] (list, fossil, citation)
Poinar Jr., G. (1994). Bees in fossilized resin. Bee World 75 (2): 71-77 [73] (as Plebeia sp., figure: fossil)

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/07/2024

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