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Melipona (Eomelipona) marginata Lepeletier, 1836

Remarks

Melipona marginata Lepeletier is here considered as polytypic, with two subspecies: Melipona marginata marginata and Melipona marginata carioca Moure, however the differentiation in the color pattern of hairs can be related with recent factors, such as climate / altitude. Variation in the color of pilosity exists inside the geographic range of M. marginata carioca, in high and cold areas of Rio de Janeiro, as recorded by Moure (1971: 58, Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro).

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Brazil (Alagoas [Quebrangulo], Bahia, Espírito Santo [Domingos Martins, Linhares, Santa Teresa], Goiás, Minas Gerais [Barbacena, Belo Horizonte, Caeté, Caldas, Poços De Caldas, Uberlândia], Paraná [Curitiba, Piraquara], Rio Grande do Sul [Barão De Cotegipe], Rio de Janeiro [Nova Iguaçu, Petrópolis, Rio De Janeiro, Teresópolis], Santa Catarina [Mafra, São Francisco Do Sul, Três Barras], São Paulo [Cajuru, Itatiba, Jundiaí, Juquitiba, Mairiporã, Rio Claro, Salesópolis, São Paulo, Ubatuba])

References

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Gonçalves, R.B., Santos, E.F. & Scott-Santos, C.F. (2012). Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apidae s.l.) captured with Malaise and pan traps along an altitudinal gradient in the Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar, Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil. Check List 8 (1): 053-056 [55] (Distribution)
Graf, L.V., Zenni, R.D. & Gonçalves, R.B. (2020). Ecological impact and population status of non-native bees in a Brazilian urban environment. Rev. Bras. Entomol. 64 (2(e20200006)): 1-8 [supplementary 2] (Distribution)
Gruchowski-Woitowicz, F.C., Silva, C.I. & Ramalho, M. (2020). Experimental field test of the influence of generalist stingless bees (Meliponini) on the topology of a bee-flower mutualistic network in the tropics. Ecol. Entomol. 45 (4): 854-866 [859] (Distribution)
Haliday, A. H. (1837). Descriptions, etc. of the Hymenoptera. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Zoo 17: 316-331 [321] (? uncertain identity, as Melipona favosa, partim: St. Paul [=São Paulo, Brazil], geographic record)
Kloc, P.B., Silva, T.M.V., Holdefer, D.R., Oliveira, F.F. & Woitowicz-Gruchowsk, F.C. (2019). Diversidade e redes de interação entre abelhas e plantas em áreas de várzea na Floresta Nacional (Flona) de Três Barras - Santa Catarina, Brasil. Acta Biol. Catarinense 6 (3): 81-97 [94-96] (Distribution)
Liebl, F.T., Dec, E. & Mouga. D.M.D.S. (2019). Diversidade de abelhas (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) em mata de araucária em Santa Catarina. Acta Biol. Catarinense 6 (1): 20-37 [24] (Distribution)
Mouga, D.M.D.S., Nogueira-Neto, P., Warkentin, M., Feretti, V. & Dec, E. (2015). Comunidade de abelhas (Hymenoptera, Apidae) e plantas associadas em área de mata atlântica em São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brasil. Acta Biol. Catarinense 2 (1): 12-31 [15] (Distribution)
Rodrigues, C.S., Ferasso, D.C., Mossi, A.J. & Coelho, G.C. (2020). Pollen resources partitioning of stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from the southern Atlantic forest. Acta Sci. Biol. Sci. 42 (1(e48714)): 1-9 [2] (Distribution)

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

Available SubSpecies

Melipona (Eomelipona) marginata carioca Moure, 1971
Melipona (Eomelipona) marginata marginata Lepeletier, 1836