Trigona branneri Cockerell, 1912
Common Names: "guaxupé", "abelha-corta-cabelo", "arapuá", "irapuá", "pegon", "mehñy-tyk", "nawa-bakû", "topoé-negra", "mbulo-oni", "kankantii-oni"
Trigona branneri
Cockerell, T. D. A (1912). New bees from Brazil. Psyche 19: 41-61 [50] .
Type data: holotype USNM 23249 <F> worker , paratype MCZ 16398 <F> worker (1) , paratype whereabouts unknown <F> workers (5) , paratype AMNH <F> worker (1).
Type locality: Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, Mann & Baker leg..
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Bolivia (La Paz, Santa Cruz), Brazil (Amazonas [Itacoatiara, Manaus, Novo Airão, Santo Antônio Do Içá], Goiás, Maranhão [Carutapera, Codó, São Luís], Mato Grosso [Cuiabá, Juína, Nova Ubiratã, Nova Xavantina], Pará [Almeirim, Belém, Conceição Do Araguaia, Cumaru Do Norte, Melgaço, Oriximiná, Santarém, Óbidos], Rondônia, Tocantins), Colombia (Cundinamarca, Meta), Ecuador (Napo), French Guiana (Cayenne, Kourou), Guyana (Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Potaro-Siparuni, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo), Suriname (Brokopondo, Marowijne, Saramacca, Wanica), Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar, Monagas)
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Laroca, S. & Sakakibara, A. M. (1976). Mutualismo entre Trigona hyalinata branneri (Apidae) e Aconophora flavipes (Membracidae). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 20 (2): 71-72 [71-72] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona hyalinata branneri, geographic record, behavior, mutualism: Aconophora flavipes (Membracidae))
Marianno, J. (1911). Ensaio sobre as Meliponidas do Brasil.. Rio de Janeiro: edição do autor 1-140 pp. [8, 79, 97, 107] (as Trigona hyalinata, defense behavior, taxonomic note, diagnosis, flower record: Dichromena ciliata, citation, geographic range; as Trigona amalthea, partim: citation of Ducke, flower records: Cyperaceae, Gramineae)
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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. [252] (Distribution record, as Trigona branneri)
Mercado, N. K. (1968). Contribución al conocimiento de las abejas indígenas (Meloponidae) [sic] de departamento de Santa Cruz. La Paz: Editorial Don Bosco 1-7 pp. [5] (as Trigona (Trigona) hyalinata branneri, folk name: "topoé negra", geographic record, diagnosis, aggressiveness, nest)
Mota, M. H. V. B. (1992). Estudo comparativo das glândulas epidérmicas do abdômen dos meliponíneos (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae). [thesis abstract] pp. 320-322 in Soares, A. E. E. & De Jong, D. (ed.) Pesquisas com abelhas no Brasil. Ribeirão Preto: Revista Brasileira de Genética 680 pp. [320, 321] (epidermal glands)
Moure, J. S. (1950). Notas sobre alguns Meliponinae da Guiana Franceza (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Dusenia 1 (5): 297-303 [300, 302] (as Trigona hyalinata branneri, synonymy, geographic records, comparative notes, taxonomy; ? uncertain identity, as Trigona hyalinata, behavior, pillage, wax)
Nates-Parra, G. (2001). Las abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 2 (3): 233-248 [240] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona (Trigona) branneri, geographic record, 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 [210] (list, geographic record, habitat, forest fragments)
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. [619, 629] (ethnobiology, Kaxinawá indians, folk name: "nawa bakû", exposed nests)
Oliveira, M. L. & Morato, E. F. (2000). Stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Meliponini) feeding on stinkhorn spores (Fungi, Phallales): robbery or dispersal?. Rev. Bras. Zool. 17 (3): 881-884 [881, 882, 884] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona cf. branneri, geographic record, fungus gleba collecting: Staheliomyces cinctus (Phallales), sugar, protein source, citation, offspring feeding, nest construction)
Oliveira, M. L., Morato, E. F. & Garcia, M. V. B. (1995). Diversidade de espécies e densidade de ninhos de abelhas sociais sem ferrão (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae) em floresta de terra firme na Amazônia Central. Rev. Bras. Zool. 12 (1): 13-24 [16, 18] (list, geographic record, habitat, forest fragments)
Posey, D. A. (1983). Keeping of stingless bees by the Kayapó indians of Brazil. J. Ethnobiol. 3 (1): 63-73 [67, 71] (as Trigona (Trigona) branneri and T. banneri [sic], ethnobiology, Kayapó indians, folk name: "mehñy-tyk", wax uses, honey, aggressiveness, list)
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. [258, 260, 261] (ethnobiology, Kayapó indians, folk name: "mehñy-tyk", wax uses, honey, aggressiveness, figure: nest, nesting site: attached to Palmae)
Posey, D. A. & Camargo, J. M. F. (1985). Additional notes on the classification and knowledge of stingless bees (Meliponinae, Apidae, Hymenoptera) by the Kayapó Indians of Gorotire, Pará, Brazil. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 54: 247-274 [250, 252] (ethnobiology, Kayapó indians, folk name: "mehñy-tyk", figure: nest, nesting site: exposed, attached to Palmae)
Rebêlo, J. M. M., Rêgo, M. M. C. & Albuquerque, P. M. C. (2003). Abelhas (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) da região setentrional do Estado do Maranhão, Brasil pp. 265-278 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. [268, 272] (geographic range, geographic record, relative abundance, habitat, citation)
Rech, A.R. & Absy, M.L. (2011). Pollen storages in nests of bees of the genera Partamona, Scaura and Trigona (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 55 (3): 361-372 [363] (Distribution record)
Renner, S. (1983). The widespread occurrence of anther destruction by Trigona bees in Melastomataceae. Biotropica 15 (4): 251-256 [252, 253] (as Trigona (Trigona) hyalinata branneri, geographic record, behavior, anther destruction: Bellucia dichotoma (Melastomataceae))
Reyne, A. (1961). Angelloze bijen (Meliponidae) als beschadigers van culturgewassen. Entomol. Ber. (Amst.) 21: 77-91 [77-91] (as Trigona (Trigona) hyalinata branneri, nesting site: in termite nest [?] [*from Wille & Michener, 1973: 26])
Reyne, A. (1962). Angelloze bijen (Meliponidae) voorkomende in Suriname. Entomol. Ber. 22 (2): 30–37 [32, 33] (as Trigona (Trigona) hyalinata branneri, geographic records, nesting site: in termite nest: Nasutitermes sp., and in tree: Erythrina glauca [?])
Rocha, I. R. D., Morais, H. C. & Kitayama, K. (1991). Visitantes diurnos de flores quiropterófilas. Rev. Bras. Biol. (Rio de Janeiro) 51 (1): 249-256 [251, 253] (geographic record, foraging, extrafloral nectary, flower record: Pseudobombax longiflorum (Bombacaceae), nectar foraging - extrafloral nectary: Caryocar brasiliens (Caryocaraceae))
Roubik, D. W. (1979). Africanized honey bees, stingless bees, and the structure of tropical plant-pollinator communities pp. 403-417 in Caron, D. (ed.) Proc. IV Int. Symp. Poll. Maryland Agric. Exp. Sta. Spec. Misc. Publ. Vol. 1. Maryland: Maryland Agricultural Experimental Station [412] (as Trigona hyalinata branneri, geographic record, foraging behavior, extrafloral nectar: Malvaceae)
Roubik, D. W. (1979). Nest and colony characteristics of stingless bees from French Guiana (Hymenoptera: Apidae). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 52 (3): 443-470 [445, 446, 447, 449, 450, 452, 457, 465] (as Trigona (Trigona) hyalinata branneri, geographic record, nest characteristics, habitat, nesting site: exposed, in slender trees or the upper branches of large trees: Ceiba sp., nest size, aggressiveness, nest population)
Roubik, D. W. (1980). Foraging behavior of competing africanized honeybees and stingless bees. Ecology 61 (4): 836-845 [836, 838, 839, 840, 841, 842, 843] (as Trigona (Trigona) hyalinata branneri, geographic record, figure: artificial feeding, foraging behavior, recruitment, communication, odors, aggressiveness, sugar solution, nest population, competition: Apis mellifera)
Roubik, D. W. (1989). Ecology and natural history of tropical bees. New York: Cambridge University Press 1-514 +x pp. [156] (as Trigona hyalinata, foraging behavior, pollen illegitimate remotion, flower record: Bellucia, citation)
Roubik, D. W. (1990). Niche preemption in tropical bee communities: a comparison of Neotropical and Malesian faunas pp. 245-257 in Sakagami, S. F., Ohgushi, R. & Roubik, D. W. (ed.) Natural history of social wasps and bees in Equatorial Sumatra. Sapporo: Hokkaido University Press [253] (aggressive foraging behavior)
Roubik, D. W. (1992). Loose niches in tropical communities: Why are there so few bees and so many trees? pp. 327-354 in Hunter, M. D., Ohgushi, T. & Price, P. W. (ed.) Effects of Resource Distribution on Animal-Plant Interactions. San Diego: Academic Press [345] (foraging behavior, aggressiveness)
Santos, C.F. & Absy, M.L. (2010). Polinizadores de Bertholletia excelsa (Lecythidales: Lecythidaceae): Interações com Abelhas sem Ferrão (Apidae: Meliponini) e Nicho Trófico. Neotropical Entomology 39 (6): 854-861 [856] (Distribution record)
Schwarz, H. F. (1938). The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of British Guiana and some related forms. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 74: 437-508 [438, 443, 457-459] (as Trigona (Trigona) hyalinata, partim [see also Trigona hyalinata (Lepeletier)], key, synonymy, geographic records, taxonomy)
Schwarz, H. F. (1948). Stingless bees (Meliponidae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 90: xvii+546 [62, 115, 201, 205, 208, 237, 238-242, 277] (as Trigona (Trigona) hyalinata branneri, geographic records, hamuli, taxonomic characters: male, keys: worker, male, comparative notes, synonymy, description: worker, male, notes on types, taxonomy, figures: male, flower records: Dichromena ciliata (Cyperaceae), Astrocaryum (Palmae) - citation, folk name: "pegon", geographic range, altitudinal records)
Silveira, F. A., G. A. R. Melo & E. A. B. Almeida (2002). Abelhas Brasileiras: Sistemática e Identificação. Belo Horizonte: F. A. Silveira 253 pp. [92] (list, geographic range)
Silveira, O. T., Esposito, M. C., Santos, Jr., J. N. & Gemaque, Jr., F. E. (2005). Social wasps and bees captured in carrion traps in a rainforest in Brazil. Entomological Science 8: 33-39 [37] (geographic record, carrion traps, necrophagy)
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] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona (Trigona) branneri, list)
Wallace, H. M. & Trueman, S. J. (1995). Dispersal of Eucalyptus torelliana seeds by the resin-collecting stingless bee, Trigona carbonaria. Oecologia (Berl.) 104: 12-16 [15] (foraging behavior, fruit pulp collecting: Vismia, citation)
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] (as Trigona hyalinata branneri, nesting site: in termite nest [?], citation)
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