Melipona (Michmelia) eburnea Friese, 1900
Common Names: "manui-bara", "abeja-real", "kenoma", "manui-gore", "abeja-pacucho", "ronsapilla", "abeja-mansa", "alá", "guanota", "real"
Melipona eburnea
Friese, H. (1900). Neue arten der Bienengattungen Melipona Ill. Und Trigona Jur. Természetr. Füz. 23: 381-394 [382] .
Type data: syntype whereabouts unknown <F> workers [6] (probably in ZMB) , syntype ZSM <F> workers (2).
Type locality: Yungas, Bolivia and Vilcanota, Peru.
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Bolivia (Cochabamba, La Paz), Brazil (Acre [Rio Branco], Amazonas [Benjamin Constant, Tabatinga]), Colombia (Amazonas, Caquetá, Cundinamarca, Guainía, Guaviare), Ecuador, Peru (Cuzco, Junín, Loreto, Madre de Dios, Pasco, San Martín, Ucayali), Venezuela (Amazonas)
References
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Cabrera Becerra, G. & Nates-Parra, G. (1999). Uso de las abejas por comunidades indígenas: los Nukak y las abejas sin aguijón pp. 59-70 in Nates-Parra, G. (ed.) Programa, Resúmenes y Memorias III Reunión de la IUSSI Bolivariana. Santafé de Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 122 pp. [59, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67] (as Melipona eburneda [sic] and M. eburnea, ethnobiology, beekeeping, folk name: "manui bara", nesting site: Lecithidaceae, Socratea exhorrhiza and Inga sp.,honey, wax, human feeding: larvae; ? uncertain identity, as Melipona gr. fasciata, ethnobiology, Nukak indians, folk names: "jiwun", "guare", "alá", "sapa", nesting site: tree trunk, nest characteristics, honey production, beekeeping, honey hunting)
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. [57] (as Melipona eburnea, taxonomic note, geographic range)
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Correia, F.C.S., Peruquetti, R.C. & Ferreira, M.G. (2018). Análise do nicho trófico e da influência das precipitações no forrageamento de Melipona eburnea Friese (Apidae: Meliponina) criadas no Acre, Brasil. EntomoBrasilis 11 (1): 13-19 (Distribution)
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