Trigona fulviventris Guérin, 1844
Common Names: "culo-de-vaca", "culo-de-señora", "mu'ul-kab", "culo-de-buey", "culo-de-vieja"
Trigona fulviventris
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. [464] .
Type data: holotype MCG <F> worker (according to the Moure's personal notes, there is one specimen from "Mexique" with label of "Type" in MCG).
Type locality: Mexico.
Trigona laboriosa
Smith, F. (1862). Descriptions of new Species of Aculeate Hymenoptera, collected at Panama by R. W. Stretch, Esq., with a List of described Species, and the various Localities where they have previously occurred. Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 11: 29-44 [42] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: holotype BMNH 17B 1080 <F> worker.
Type locality: Panama.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1910). Descriptions and records of bees - XXXIII. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 6: 356-366 [366]
Remarks
we consider as Trigona fulviventris Guérin the specimens from Mexico to Western Ecuador. There are also undescribed species this group, from South America, besides Trigona guianae Cockerell and Trigona braueri Friese, which were erroneously recorded in the literature as Trigona fulviventris Guérin
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán de Ocampo, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz-Llave, Yucatán); Neotropical Region: Belize (Belize, Corozal), Brazil (Alagoas [Quebrangulo], Bahia [Ilhéus, Porto Seguro], Ceará [Baturité, Guaramiranga, Mulungu], Espírito Santo [Santa Teresa], Maranhão [Barreirinhas, Carutapera], Mato Grosso [Cuiabá], Mato Grosso do Sul [Campo Grande], Minas Gerais [Araguari], Paraíba [João Pessoa], Pernambuco [Recife], Rio de Janeiro [Nova Iguaçu, Santa Maria Madalena], Sergipe [Santa Luzia Do Itanhy], São Paulo [Peruíbe, Salesópolis, Ubatuba], Tocantins [Santa Maria Do Tocantins]), Colombia (Boyaca, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Magdalena, Valle del Cauca), Costa Rica (Alajuela, Cartago, Guanacaste, Limón, Puntarenas, San José), El Salvador (Sonsonate), Guatemala (Alta Verapaz, Chimaltenango, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Izabal, Quezaltenango, Zacapa), Honduras (Atlántida, Colón, Francisco Morazán, Valle, Yoro), Nicaragua (Carazo, Chontales, Managua), Panama (Chiriquí, Coclé, Colón, Darién, Panamá, Veraguas), Panama Canal Zone
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Kerr, W. E. (1951). Bases para o estudo da genética de populações dos Hymenoptera em geral e dos Apinae sociais em particular. An. Esc. Sup. Agric. "Luiz de Queiroz" 8: 219-354 [274, 281, 297] (as Trigona (Trigona) fulviventris fulviventris, male aggregation, nest density, citation, mimicry: Tetrapedia, Paratetrapedia)
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Kerr, W. E., Carvalho, G. A. & Nascimento, V. A. (1996). Enxameagem pp. 47-52 in Kerr, W. E., Carvalho, G. A. & Nascimento, V. A. (ed.) Abelha Uruçu. Biologia, Manejo e Conservação. Belo Horizonte: Fundação Acangaú 144 pp. [50] (male swarming, citation)
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Wille, A. (1983). Biology of the stingless bees. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 28: 41-64 [47, 60, 62] (as Trigona (Trigona) fulviventris, nesting site: among roots at bases of trees, honey characteristics, defense behavior)
Wille, A. & C. D. Michener (1973). The nest architecture of stingless bees with special reference to those of Costa Rica. Rev. Biol. Trop. 21 (Suplemento 1): 1-278 [15, 26, 35, 49, 60, 72, 83, 86, 99, 112, 222-229, 230, 265] (as Trigona (Trigona) fulviventris fulviventris, geographic records, nesting site: among roots at foot of trees, soil cavity, nest characteristics, nest entrance, figures: nest, honey characteristics)
Wille, A., Orozco, E. & Raabe, C. (1983). Polinización del chayote Sechium edule (Jacq.) Swartz en Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical 31 (1): 145-154 [146, 151, 152, 153] (as Trigona (Trigona) fulviventris fulviventris, pollination: Sechium edule (Cucurbitaceae), geographic records, altitudinal range, relative abundance)
Willmer, P. G. & Corbet, S. A. (1981). Temporal and microclimatic partitioning of the floral resources of Justicia aurea amongst a concourse of pollen vectors and nectar robbers. Oecologia (Berl.) 51 (1): 67-78 [69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76] (geographic record, foraging behavior, flower record: Justicia aurea (Acanthaceae), nectar robbery, pollen, daily activity, relative abundance, niche, microclimatic patterning)
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