Melipona (Melikerria) beecheii Bennett, 1831
Common Names: "abeja-real", "yilkil-cab", "colel-cab", "xunan-cab", "colmena-cab", "abeja-alazona", "pipioli", "mimialcuatl", "tsaspena", "gato", "royal-bee", "lady-bee", "xuna'an-kab", "kolel-kab", "po'ol-kab", "abeja-aluva", "blanco-aluva", "xunaan-kaab", "criolla", "jicote-gato", "jicote-estrella"
Melipona beecheii
Bennett, E. T. (1831). Some account of the habits of a Mexican bee pp. 357-365 in Beechey, F. W. (ed.) Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's strait, to cooperate with the polar expeditions: performed in his Majesty's Ship Blosson, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey, F. W. Vol. 2. London: Colburn and Bentley & Amsterdan lv+452, 10 plates, 1 map pp. [363] .
Type data: holotype whereabouts unknown <F> worker (Beechey (1831: 444, appendix), indicated the places visited by the expedition, mainly San Blas, Mazatlan, Tepic and Acapulco. The description was probably based on one specimen only).
Type locality: Mexico [probably pacific coast between Mazatlan and Acapulco].
Etymology: homage to Captain F. W. Beechey.
Trigona ligata
Say, T. (1837). Descriptions of new species of North American Hymenoptera, and observations on some already described. Boston J. Nat. Hist. 1(4): 393-416 [415] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: holotype whereabouts unknown <F> worker (probably lost).
Type locality: Mexico.
Melipona zonulata
Spinola, M. (1840). Observationes sur les apiaires meliponides. Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. Biol. Anim. 13: 116-140 [123] (nom. nud.) .
Melipona fulvipes
Guérin-Méneville, F. E. (1844). Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non encore figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux; pouvant servir d'atlas à tous les traités de Zoologie. Paris: Baillière, J. B. Vol. 3 xxix+ 653, plates 2 pp. [462, plate 75, figures 6, 6a-6l] (junior subjective synonym) ; Du Buysson, R. (1901). Sur deux Mélipones du Mexique. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 70: 153-156 [154] ; Schwarz, H. F. (1932). The genus Melipona the type genus of the Meliponidae or stingless bees. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 63 (4): 231-460 [318] .
Type data: syntype MNHP <F> workers , syntype MCG <F> worker (1) , syntype BMNH <F> workers (2).
Type locality: Cuba.
Melipona domestica
Darwin, C. (1859). On the origin of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray ix + 502 pp. [221] (nom. nud. [Darwin referred to the nest described and illustrated by J. P. Huber (1839)]) .
Melipona nigripes
Friese, H. (1900). Neue arten der Bienengattungen Melipona Ill. Und Trigona Jur. Természetr. Füz. 23: 381-394 [381] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: syntype ZMB <F> workers (1) , syntype AMNH <F> worker (1) , syntype whereabouts unknown <F> workers (2).
Type locality: Guatemala, 1890, Stoll leg..
Trigona fulvipes obscuripes
Friese, H. (1916). Zur bienenfauna von Costa Rica (Hym.). Stett. Entomol. Ztg. 77: 287-348 [348, 299] (junior subjective synonym; Friese, 1916: 299 as Melipona fulvipes obscuripes.) .
Type data: syntype ZMB <F> workers (3) , syntype whereabouts unknown <F> worker (1).
Type locality: San Carlos, Costa Rica, Burgdorf leg.; Jacubaya, Mexico.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Ayala, R. (1999). Revision de las abejas sin aguijon de Mexico (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Folia Entomológica Mexicana 106: 1-123 [32, 34-35]
Camargo, J. M. F. & Pedro, S. R. M. (2007). Meliponini Lepeletier, 1836 pp. 272-578 in Moure, J. S., Urban, D. & Melo, G. A. R. (ed.) Catalogue of Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in the Neotropical Region. Curitiba: Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia xiv + 1058 pp. [333]
Schwarz, H. F. (1932). The genus Melipona the type genus of the Meliponidae or stingless bees. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 63 (4): 231-460 [313] ([although this author has not presented a formal synonymy, he comments ".the only alternative is to make fulvipes a synonym of beecheii, ."])
Spinola, M. (1840). Observationes sur les apiaires meliponides. Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. Biol. Anim. 13: 116-140 [123]
Remarks
Remarks (from Camargo & Pedro 2007: 333): Melipona fulvipes Guérin although described from Cuba, was presumably introduced to Jamaica and Cuba by Indians from its continental range in México and Central America, according to Michener (1982: 37). The continental specimens, considered as M. beecheii, present some variation in body size and coloration of the pilosity on mesoscutum - whitish, like specimens from Cuba, faint yellow tinge, to strongly yellow or rufescent. In the present catalog M. fulvipes and M. beecheii are considered synonyms; only an exhaustive revision of the group will clarify if they constitute one or more species.
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Distrito Federal, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán de Ocampo, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz-Llave, Yucatán, Zacatecas); Neotropical Region: Belize, Costa Rica (Puntarenas, San José), Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala (Alta Verapaz, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Izabal, Zacapa), Honduras (Cortés, Francisco Morazán), Jamaica, Nicaragua (Atlántico Norte, Managua), Panama, Panama Canal Zone
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