Tetragona beebei (Schwarz, 1938)
Common Name: "moça-branca"
Trigona (Tetragona) dorsalis beebei
Schwarz, H. F. (1938). The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of British Guiana and some related forms. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 74: 437-508 [474] .
Type data: holotype USNM 53066 <F> worker , paratype USNM <F> worker , paratype AMNH <F> workers (2) , paratype CUIC 5587 <F> worker (1).
Type locality: Bartica, British Guiana.
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Brazil (Pará [Conceição Do Araguaia]), French Guiana (Kourou, Sinnamary), Guyana (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), Suriname (Marowijne, Wanica)
References
Akahira, Y. & Beig, D. (1967). Comparative study of corpora alata [sic] in Brazilian stingless bees. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 20 (16): 165-190 [166, 169, 171, 172, 179, 180, 181, 183] (as Trigona (Tetragona) dorsalis, geographic record, histology, corpora allata, worker ovary development, figure)
Almeida, R.P.S., Arruda, F.V., Silva, D.P., & Coelho, B.W.T. (2019). Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in an Ecotonal Cerrado-Amazon Region in Brazil. Sociobiology 66 (3): 457-466 [461] (Distribution record)
Camargo, J. M. F. (1970). Ninhos e biologia de algumas espécies de Meliponideos (Hymenoptera: Apidae) da região de Pôrto Velho, Território de Rondônia, Brasil. Revista de Biologia Tropical 16 (2): 207-239 [209] (as Trigona (Tetragona) dorsalis, nest, note [reference to Kerr et al. 1967, not mentioned])
Camargo, J. M. F. (1988). Meliponinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae) da coleção do "Istituto di Entomologia Agraria", Portici, Itália. Rev. Bras. Entomol. 32 (3/4): 351–374 [364] (as Tetragona dorsalis, partim: Surinam and T. dorsalis beebei, list, geographic record, taxonomic note, synonymy)
Du Buysson, R. & Marshall, T. A. (1892). Voyage de M. E. Simon au Venezuela (Decémbre 1887- Avril 1888). Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 61: 53-60 [54] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona dorsalis, geographic record)
Engel, M. S. & Dingemans-Bakels, F. (1980). Nectar and pollen resources for stingless bees (Meliponinae, Hymenoptera) in Surinam (South America). Apidologie 11 (4): 341-350 [345] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona dorsalis beebei, flower records: Vernonia remotiflora (Compositae), Musa spec. (Musaceae))
Kerr, W. E. (1969). Some aspects of the evolution of social bees (Apidae). Evol. Biol. 3: 119-175 [135] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona (T.) dorsalis, chromosomes number (n=18))
Kerr, W. E., Sakagami, S. F., Zucchi, R., Portugal Araújo, V. & Camargo, J. M. F. (1967). Observações sôbre a arquitetura dos ninhos e comportamento de algumas espécies de abelhas sem ferrão das vizinhanças de Manaus, Amazonas (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Atas do Simpósio sôbre a Biota Amazônica 5: 255-309 [256, 258, 259, 274-276, 302, 303, 306, 307] (as Trigona (Tetragona) dorsalis, geographic records, nesting site: tree cavity, nest characteristics, figure, resin foraging, behavior, folk name: "moça-branca")
Moure, J. S. (1950). Notas sobre alguns Meliponinae da Guiana Franceza (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Dusenia 1 (5): 297-303 [301] (as Tetragona dorsalis and Tetragona dorsalis beebei, geographic records, taxonomic notes)
Moure, J. S. (1971). Descrição de uma nova espécie de Tetragona do Brasil Central (Hymenoptera - Apidae). Bol. Univ. Fed. Paraná 4 (10): 47-50 [49] (comparative notes)
Nogueira-Neto, P. (1970). A criação de abelhas indígenas sem ferrão (Meliponinae). São Paulo: Tecnapis 2nd Edn 1-365 pp. [42] (as Tetragona dorsalis, folk name "moça-branca", citation)
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, 213] (as Tetragona dorsalis, list, geographic record, habitat, forest fragments, nest density)
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] (as Tetragona dorsalis, list, geographic record, habitat, nest density)
Reyne, A. (1962). Angelloze bijen (Meliponidae) voorkomende in Suriname. Entomol. Ber. 22 (2): 30–37 [35] (as Trigona (Tetragona) dorsalis beebei, geographic records)
Rocha, M. P., Pompolo, S. G. & Campos, L. A. O. (2003). Citogenética da tribo Meliponini (Hymenoptera, Apidae) pp. 311-320 in Melo, G. A. R. & Alves-dos-Santos, I. (ed.) Apoidea Neotropica: Homenagem aos 90 anos de Jesus Santiago Moure. Criciúma: Editora UNESC 320 pp. [317] (? uncertain identity, as Tetragona dorsalis, chromosomes number (n=18) - citation)
Roubik, D. W. (1979). Africanized honey bees, stingless bees, and the structure of tropical plant-pollinator communities pp. 403-417 in Caron, D. (ed.) Proc. IV Int. Symp. Poll. Maryland Agric. Exp. Sta. Spec. Misc. Publ. Vol. 1. Maryland: Maryland Agricultural Experimental Station [412] (as Trigona dorsalis beebei, foraging behavior, extrafloral nectary, flower record: Malvaceae, geographic record)
Roubik, D. W. (1979). Nest and colony characteristics of stingless bees from French Guiana (Hymenoptera: Apidae). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 52 (3): 443-470 [445, 446, 448, 449, 450, 452, 457, 463, 466] (as Trigona (Tetragona) dorsalis beebei, nest characteristics, habitat, figure, nest population, pollen, defense behavior)
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 dorsalis beebei and T. dorsalis dorsalis [partim: citation of Roubik, 1979, French Guiana], taxonomic note, nest entrance - citation)
Sakagami, S. F., Beig, D. & Akahira,Y. (1964). Behavior studies of the stingless bees, with special reference to the oviposition process. III. Appearance of laying workers in a colony of Partamona (Partamona) testacea testacea (KLUG). Jpn. J. Ecol. 14 (2): 50-57 [55] (as Trigona (Tetragona) dorsalis, worker ovary development)
Schwarz, H. F. (1938). The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of British Guiana and some related forms. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 74: 437-508 [443, 445, 474-475] (as Trigona (Tetragona) dorsalis beebei, key, diagnosis, description, geographic records, taxonomy, figures [plate LVI, figure B])
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 [24, 47, 58, 70] (as Trigona (Tetragona) dorsalis, partim: Kerr et al. (1967), nest characteristics, citation)
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