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Melipona (Michmelia) fuscopilosa Moure & Kerr, 1950
Common Name: "kuru-bunáki"
Melipona eburnea fuscopilosa Moure, J. S. & W. E. Kerr (1950). Sugestões para a modificação da sistemática do gênero Melipona (Hymen.- Apoidea). Dusenia 1 (2): 105-129 [113] .
Type data: lectotype MZUSP 103254 <F> worker , paralectotype MZUSP 103307 <F> worker , paralectotype DZUP 103255 <F> worker.
Subsequent designation: Urban, D. (2003). Catálogo das abelhas publicadas por Jesus Santiago Moure pp. 11-43 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. [33] .
Type locality: Santarém, rio Ariramba, Pará, Brazil.

Remarks

Here we are considering Melipona fuscopilosa Moure & Kerr as species but it may be a subspecies of Melipona seminigra Friese as proposed by Camargo (1994: 56, 57).

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Brazil (Acre [Rio Branco, Xapuri], Amazonas [Benjamin Constant, Manaus, Tabatinga]), Colombia (Amazonas), Peru (Loreto)

References

Camargo, J. M. F. (1994). Biogeografia de Meliponini (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae): a fauna amazônica pp. 46-59 in Zucchi, R., Drumond, P. M., Fernandes-da-Silva, P. G. & Augusto, S. C. (ed.) Anais do I Encontro Sobre Abelhas. Ribeirão Preto: Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo xx+308 pp. [50, 51, 56, 57] (as Melipona eburnea fuscopilosa, and M. seminiga fuscopilosa, list, nest, nesting site: dead trunk, habitat, taxonomic notes, biogeogaphy)
Camargo, J. M. F. & Roubik, D. W. (1991). Systematics and bionomics of the apoid obligate necrophages: the Trigona hypogea group (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Meliponinae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 44: 13-39 [21] (as Melipona eburnea fuscopilosa, nest, geographic record)
Fernandes-Salomão, T. M., Muro-Abad, J. I., Campos, L. A. O. & Araújo, E. F. (2002). Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA characterization in the Melipona species (Hymenoptera, Meliponini) by RFLP analysis. Hereditas (Lund) 137: 229-233 [229] (as Melipona seminigra, partim [citation of Rocha & Pompolo, 1998], heterochromatin, karyotype)
Inoue, T., Roubik, D. W. & Suka, T. (1999). Nestmate recognition in the stingless bee Melipona panamica (Apidae, Meliponini). Insectes Soc. 46: 208-218 [209] (as Melipona eburnea fuscopilosa, synonymy [error], geographic range)
Laroca, S. & M. C. Almeida (1994). O relicto de cerrado de Jaguariaíva, (Paraná, Brasil): I. padrões biogeográficos, melissocenoses e flora melissófila. Acta Biol. Paranaense (Curitiba) 23 (1,2,3,4): 89-101 [101] (as Melipona eburnea fuscopilosa, habitat - citation)
Moure, J. S. & J. M. F. Camargo (1994). Melipona (Michmelia) capixaba, uma nova espécie de Meliponinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae) do sudeste do Brasil. Rev. Bras. Zool. 11 (2): 289-296 [295] (as Melipona fuscopilosa, taxonomic note)
Moure, J. S. & W. E. Kerr (1950). Sugestões para a modificação da sistemática do gênero Melipona (Hymen.- Apoidea). Dusenia 1 (2): 105-129 [106, 113-114] (as Melipona eburnea fuscopilosa, geographic range, map, description, geographic records, taxonomic notes)
Nates-Parra, G. (1995). Las abejas sin aguijon del genero Melipona (Hymenoptera: Meliponinae) en Colombia. Bol. Mus. Ent. Valle 3 (2): 21-33 [23] (as Melipona eburnea fuscopilosa, list)
Nates-Parra, G. (2001). Las abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 2 (3): 233-248 [238] (? uncertain identity, as Melipona eburnea fuscopilosa [error, does not exist in Cundinamarca and Tolima], geographic range, altitudinal record)
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 [217] (as Melipona eburnea fuscopilosa, geographic record, figure: nest, nest entrance, seeds collecting: Coussapoa)
Oliveira, M. L. (2002). As abelhas sem ferrão na vida dos seringueiros e dos Kaxinawá do alto rio Juruá, Acre, Brasil pp. 615-630 in Cunha, M. C. & Almeida, M. B. (ed.) Enciclopédia da Floresta. O Alto Juruá: Práticas e conhecimentos das populações. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras 735 pp. [630] (as Melipona eburnea fuscopilosa, ethnobiology, Kaxinawá indians, folk name: "kuru-bunáki", nest entrance, honey)
Ramos, K.S., Kawada, R. & Brandão, C.R.F. (2015). Type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Pap. Avul. Dep. Zool., S. Paulo 55 (24): 335-361 [342] (Note on type material (as Melipona eburnea))
Rasmussen, C. & Castillo, P. S. (2003). Estudio preliminar de la Meliponicultura o apicultura silvestre en el Perú (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Meliponini). Revista Peruana de Entomologia 43: 159-164 [161] (as Melipona eburnea fuscopilosa, geographic records, honey production, rearing, citation)
Rocha, M. P., Cruz, M. P., Fernandes, A., Waldschmidt, A. M., Silva-Junior, J. C. & Pompolo, S. G. (2003). Longitudinal differentiation in Melipona mandacaia (Hymenoptera, Meliponini) chromosomes. Hereditas (Lund) 138: 133-137 [133] (as Melipona seminigra fuscopilosa, cytogenetics, heterochromatin, citation)
Rocha, M. P. & Pompolo, S. G. (1998). Karyotypes and heterochromatin variation (C-bands) in Melipona species (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae). Gen. Mol. Biol. 21 (1): 41-45 [42, 43, 44] (as Melipona seminigra fuscopilosa, geographic record, karyotype, figure, chromosomes number (2n=18, n=9), heterochromatin)
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. [316] (as Melipona seminigra, chromosomes number (n=9, 2n=18), citation)
Rocha, M. P., Pompolo, S. G., Dergam, J. A., Fernandes, A. & Campos, L. A. O. (2002). DNA characterization and karyotypic evolution in the bee genus Melipona (Hymenoptera, Meliponini). Hereditas (Lund) 136: 19-27 [19, 20, 24] (as Melipona seminigra fuscopilosa, geographic record, chromosomes number (2n=18, n=9), cytology, figure: mitotic cells)
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. [520] (as Melipona eburnea fuscopilosa, taxonomic note, geographic record)
Roubik, D. W., Yanega, D., Aluja S., M., Buchmann, S. L. & Inouye, D. W. (1995). On optimal nectar foraging by some tropical bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Apidologie 26: 197-211 [200] (as Melipona panamica fuscopilosa, synonymy)
Smith-Pardo, A. H. (2003). A preliminary account of the bees of Colombia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea): present knowledge and future directions. J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 76 (2): 335-341 [338] (as Melipona eburnea fuscopilosa, list)
Urban, D. (2003). Catálogo das abelhas publicadas por Jesus Santiago Moure pp. 11-43 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. [33] (as Melipona eburnea fuscopilosa, list, species described by J. S. Moure, lectotype designation)
Velthuis, H. H. W., Cortopassi Laurino, M., Pereboom, Z. & Imperatriz-Fonseca, V. L. (2003). The conservative egg of the genus Melipona and its consequences for speciation pp. 171-176 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. [172, 173, 175] (as Melipona eburnea fuscopilosa, geographic record, eggs shape, size, figure, food volume)

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