Tetragona dorsalis (Smith, 1854)
Common Names: "borá-bico-de-vidro", "tôtn-my", "tôtn-my're", "250, 263, 268 , "
Trigona dorsalis
Smith, F. (1854). Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, Part 2. Apidae. London: British Museum 199-465 pp. [411] .
Type data: holotype BMNH 17B 1074 <F> worker.
Type locality: Brazil (Pará) [probably = Belém].
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Brazil (Amapá [Mazagão], Amazonas [Benjamin Constant, Japurá, Manaus, Tefé], Ceará [Capistrano], Maranhão [Alcântara, Buriticupu, Carutapera, Chapadinha, São Luís, Vitória Do Mearim], Mato Grosso [Nova Ubiratã], Pará [Anajás, Belém, Bragança, Cumaru Do Norte, Itaituba], Tocantins), Colombia (Caquetá, Guainía, Guaviare)
References
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Laroca, S. (1971). Contribuição para o conhecimento da bionomia dos meliponídeos: ninho de Tetragona truncata Moure, 1971 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Bol. Univ. Fed. Paraná 4 (11): 51-57 [51, 54, 55, 56] (nest characteristics, defense behavior, citation)
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Melo, G.A.R. & Muniz, D.B. (2021). Abelhas sociais sem ferrão (Apidae, Meliponini) - Stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini) pp. 246-261 in Rodrigues, D.J., Barbosa, F.R., Noronha, J.N., Carpanedo, R.S., Tourinho, A.L. & Battirola, L.D. (ed.) Biodiversidade da Estação Ecológica do Rio Ronuro - Biodiversity of the Rio Ronuro Ecological Station. Cuiabá: Fundação Uniselva 408 pp. [252] (Distribution record, as Tetragona dorsalis)
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Mota, M. H. V. B. (1992). Estudo comparativo das glândulas epidérmicas do abdômen dos meliponíneos (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae). [thesis abstract] pp. 320-322 in Soares, A. E. E. & De Jong, D. (ed.) Pesquisas com abelhas no Brasil. Ribeirão Preto: Revista Brasileira de Genética 680 pp. [320, 321] (as Tetragona dorsali [sic], epidermal glands)
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Nogueira-Neto, P. (1970). A criação de abelhas indígenas sem ferrão (Meliponinae). São Paulo: Tecnapis 2nd Edn 1-365 pp. [32, 42] (as Trigona (Tetragona) dorsalis and T. (T.) zigleri [sic], citation, folk name: "moça branca")
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, 19] (list, geographic record, habitat, nest density)
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Parra, G. (1990). Bionomia de las abejas sin aguijon (Apidae Meliponinae) del Occidente Colombiano. Cespedesia 57-58: 77-116 [80, 82, 83, 91, 94, 97, 112] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona (Tetragona) cf. dorsalis and T. (Tetragona) aff. dorsalis, nesting site: hollow of tree: Cecropia sp., nest entrance, defense behavior, geographic record, figure)
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Posey, D. A. (1986). Etnoentomologia de tribos indígenas da Amazônia [in large part translation of Posey & Camargo, 1985] pp. 251-271 in Ribeiro, D. (ed.), Ribeiro, B. G. (coord.) (ed.) Suma Etnológica Brasileira, 1 Etnobiologia. Petrópolis: Ed. Vozes / FINEP 302 pp. [258] (ethnobiology, folk name: "tôn-mý", Kayapó indians, wax, honey)
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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. [508] (as Trigona (Tetragona) dorsalis dorsalis, partim: Pará, taxonomic note)
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Tóth, E., Strassmann, J. E., Imperatriz-Fonseca, V. L. & Queller, D. C. (2003). Queens, not workers, poduce the males in the stingless bee Schwarziana quadripunctata quadripunctata. Animal Behaviour 66: 359-368 [366] (? uncertain identity, worker ovary development, male production, citation)
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