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Melipona (Michmelia) seminigra pernigra Moure & Kerr, 1950
Common Name: "udjy"
Melipona seminigra pernigra Moure, J. S. & W. E. Kerr (1950). Sugestões para a modificação da sistemática do gênero Melipona (Hymen.- Apoidea). Dusenia 1 (2): 105-129 [122-123] .
Type data: lectotype DZUP <F> worker , paralectotype DZUP <F> workers.
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. [34] .
Type locality: Imperatriz, Maranhão, Brazil, 6.VIII.1949, Dobzhansky leg..

References

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Melo, G.A.R. & Muniz, D.B. (2021). Abelhas sociais sem ferrão (Apidae, Meliponini) - Stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini) pp. 246-261 in Rodrigues, D.J., Barbosa, F.R., Noronha, J.N., Carpanedo, R.S., Tourinho, A.L. & Battirola, L.D. (ed.) Biodiversidade da Estação Ecológica do Rio Ronuro - Biodiversity of the Rio Ronuro Ecological Station. Cuiabá: Fundação Uniselva 408 pp. [251] (Distribution record, as Melipona seminigra pernigra)
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Posey, D. A. (1986). Etnoentomologia de tribos indígenas da Amazônia [in large part translation of Posey & Camargo, 1985] pp. 251-271 in Ribeiro, D. (ed.), Ribeiro, B. G. (coord.) (ed.) Suma Etnológica Brasileira, 1 Etnobiologia. Petrópolis: Ed. Vozes / FINEP 302 pp. [256, 257, 263] (as Melipona seminigra pernigra and M. seminigra, ethnobiology, Kayapó indians, honey hunting, folk name: "ngài-ñy-tyk-ti", honey, uses in witchcraft, figure [page 263, figure 4D, without the name of the species])
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Santos, F. M., Carvalho, C. A. L. & Silva, R. F. (2004). Diversidade de abelhas (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) em uma área de transição (Cerrado-Amazônia). Acta Amazonica 34 (2): 310-328 [322] (as Melipona seminigra pernigra, geographic record, habitat, relative abundance)
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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 [363, 372, 375] (as Melipona fasciata fuscata, partim: Pará: Itaituba, synonymy [partim: citation Ducke])
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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. [34] (as Melipona seminigra pernigra, list, species described by J. S. Moure, type material, lectotype designation)
Venturieri, G. (1997). Reproductive ecology of Schizolobium amazonicum Huber ex Ducke and Sclerolobium paniculatum Vogel (Caesalpiniaceae) and its importance in forestry management projects pp. 65-69 in Richards, K. W. (ed.) Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Pollination, Alberta, Canada. Pollination: from theory to practise. Acta Horticulturae, 437. Leuven, Belgium: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, International Society for Horticultural Science [68] (as Melipona seminigra, geographic record, flower record: Schizolobium amazonicum (Caesalpiniaceae))

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