Trigona fuscipennis Friese, 1900
Common Names: "mapaitero", "sanharó", "abelha-brava", "xnuk", "k'uris-kab", "enreda", "corta-cabelo", "currunchus", "zagaño", "enredapelos"
Trigona fuscipennis
Friese, H. (1900). Neue arten der Bienengattungen Melipona Ill. Und Trigona Jur. Természetr. Füz. 23: 381-394 [385] .
Type data: lectotype HNHM 686/4 <F> worker (The type series of <I>Trigona fuscipennis </I>Friese, is certainly composed. The specimens from Brazil: Pará and Blumenau are distinct species. One specimen with label of "typus", deposited in ZMB, from Pará, Brazil, was examined by Ayala (1999: 101)) , paralectotype HNHM 686/4 <F> worker (1) , paralectotype HNHM 772/13 <F> workers (2) , paralectotype ZMB <F> workers (?).
Subsequent designation: Camargo, J. M. F. & Pedro, S. R. M. (2007). Meliponini Lepeletier, 1836 pp. 272-578 in Moure, J. S., Urban, D. & Melo, G. A. R. (ed.) Catalogue of Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in the Neotropical Region. Curitiba: Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia xiv + 1058 pp. [542] (designation of the lectotype by Claus Rasmussen, in litt., 29.III.2006. The other specimens (6), from "Guatemala", "Columbia" and "Brasilia" mentioned by Friese are unknown) .
Type locality: Panamá.
Trigona (Trigona) setentrionalis
Almeida, M. C. (1995). Quatro espécies novas de Trigona (s. str.) (Apidae, Meliponinae) da região neotropical. Acta Biol. Paranaense (Curitiba) 21 (1992) (1,2,3,4): 181-193 [187] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: holotype DZUP <F> worker , paratype DZUP <F> workers (31) (Paratypes indicated as deposited in RPSP by Almeida, 1984: 187 (USPRP = RPSP) are indeed in DZUP).
Type locality: Esmeraldas, Ecuador, VII.1966, F. H. Walz leg..
Etymology: referent to the geographic range of the species.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Roubik, D. W. (2000). The de-flowering of Central America: a current perspective pp. 144-151 in International Bee Research Association (ed.) Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Apiculture in Tropical Climates. Cardiff: IBRA [146]
Remarks
We consider as Trigona fuscipennis Friese only the specimens from Mexico to Western Ecuador. There are also undescribed species of this group, from South America, which were recorded in the literature as Trigona fuscipennis Friese.
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz-Llave, Yucatán); Neotropical Region: Belize, Brazil (Amazonas [Itacoatiara], Bahia [Igrapiúna], Ceará [Baturité, Guaramiranga, Mulungu], Mato Grosso do Sul [Bonito, Corumbá, Miranda], Paraná [Londrina], Sergipe [Areia Branca], São Paulo [Corumbataí, Ribeirão Preto]), Colombia (Antioquia, Bolívar, Cundinamarca, Magdalena, Valle del Cauca), Costa Rica (Alajuela, Guanacaste, Limón, Puntarenas, San José), Ecuador (Esmeraldas, Guayas), El Salvador (Sonsonate), Guatemala (Alta Verapaz, Chiquimula, Escuintla, Guatemala, Izabal, Suchitepéquez, Zacapa), Honduras (Atlántida, Colón, Francisco Morazán), Nicaragua (Chinandega, Chontales), Panama (Chiriquí, Coclé, Colón, Herrera, Los Santos, Panamá, Veraguas), Panama Canal Zone
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Ihering, H. (1903). As abelhas sociais do Brasil e suas denominações tupis. Revista do Instituto Historico e Geográfico de São 8: 376-388 [386] (? uncertain identity [*from Schwarz, 1948: 210])
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Laroca, S. (1997). Mutualisme entre Trigona fuscipennis (Hymenoptera, Apidae) et Anchistrotus amitteraglobus, un membracide amazonien que subt la mutilation naturelle du pronotum. Acta Biol. Paranaense (Curitiba) 26 (1,2,3,4): 1-8 [1-8] (as Trigona amalthea, honeydew collecting: Aethalion reticulatum (Membracidae), citation; as Trigona (Trigona) fuscipennis [probably new species], mutualism: Anchistrotus amitteraglobus (Membracidae), behavior, honeydew collecting, territoriality, figure)
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, 109, 110] (? uncertain identity, habitat, citation, mutualism: Anchistrotus amitteraglobus (Membracidae))
Laroca, S. & Sakakibara, A. M. (1976). Mutualismo entre Trigona hyalinata branneri (Apidae) e Aconophora flavipes (Membracidae). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 20 (2): 71-72 [72] (as Trigona amalthea [Trigona fuscipennis group], mutualism: Membracidae, citation)
Lenko, K. & Papavero, N. (1996). Insetos no folclore. São Paulo: Plêiade, FAPESP 2nd Edn 1-468 pp. [262, 273] ([probably new species], folk name: "abelha-brava", "mel-de-sapo", citation)
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Lopes, A. V. F. & Machado, I. C. S. (1996). Biologia floral de Swartzia pickelii Killip ex Ducke (Leguminosae - Papilionoideae) e sua polinização por Eulaema spp. (Apidae - Euglossini). Revta. brasil. Bot. 19 (1): 17-24 [20, 22] (as Trigona aff. fuscipennis [probably new species], foraging behavior, pollen, flower record: Swatzia pickelii (Papilionoideae), body size)
Lutz, F. E. (1924). Some characters of American Meliponidae pp. 202-232 in Lutz, F. E. Apparently non-selective characters and combinations of characters, including a study of ultraviolet in relation to the flower visiting habits of insects. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 29: 181–283 [202, 205, 207, 208, 210, 211, 212, 215, 216, 218] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona amalthea and Trigona fuscipennis, taxonomic characters, figures: hind leg, mandible)
Lutz, F. E. & Cockerell, T. D. A (1920). Notes on distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 42: 491-641 [495] (as Trigona amalthea, partim, synonymy)
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Maués, M. M. (2002). Reproductive phenology and pollination of the Brazil nut stree [sic] (Bertholletia excelsa Humb. & Bonpl. Lecythidaceae) in eastern Amazonia pp. 245-254 in Kevan, P. G. & Imperatriz-Fonseca, V. L. (ed.) Pollinating bees: the conservation link between agriculture and nature. Brasília: Ministry of Environment 313 pp. [251, 252] ([probably a new species], flower record: Bertholletia excelsa (Lecythidaceae), geographic record)
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Nates Parra, G. & Cepeda, O. I. (1983). Comportamiento defensivo en algunas especies de meliponinos colombianos (Hymenoptera: Meliponinae). Bol. Depto. Biol. Univ. Nac. Colombia 1 (5): 65-82 [66, 69, 73] (as Trigona amalthea, partim [citation od Salt, 1929], geographic record, citation; ? uncertain identity, as Trigona (Trigona) fuscipennis, defense behavior)
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Nogueira-Neto, P. (1970). A criação de abelhas indígenas sem ferrão (Meliponinae). São Paulo: Tecnapis 2nd Edn 1-365 pp. [31, 41, 62, 298] (as Trigona amalthea, partim [citation of Salt, 1929; see also Trigona truculenta Almeida, 1984], parasite: Melittophora (Phoridae), citation; as Trigona fuscipennis, folk names: "abelha brava", "mel de sapo", "irapuá", domestication, citation)
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Parra, G. (1990). Bionomia de las abejas sin aguijon (Apidae Meliponinae) del Occidente Colombiano. Cespedesia 57-58: 77-116 [80, 81, 82, 83, 92, 95, 98] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona (Trigona) fuscipennis, exposed nest [?], nest entrance [?], defense behavior, geographic records, nest characteristics)
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Rêgo, M. & Brito, C. (1996). Abelhas sociais (Apidae: Meliponini) em um ecossistema de cerrado s.l. (Chapadinha - MA, BR): distribuição dos ninhos pp. 238-247 in Garófalo, C. A., Soares, A. E. E., Paulino-Simões, Z. L. & Camillo, E. (ed.) Anais do II Encontro sobre Abelhas. Ribeirão Preto: Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto xxii+351 pp. [240, 244, 246] ([probably new species], geographic record, nesting site: in termite nest in hollow tree: Platonia insignis, nest distribution)
Rêgo, M. M. C. & Albuquerque, P. M. C. (1989). Comportamento das abelhas visitantes de Murici, Byrsonima crassifolia (L.) Kunth, Malpighiaceae. Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio Goeldi, sér. Zool. 5 (2): 179-193 [185, 186, 188, 189] ([probably a new species], geographic record, flower record: Byrsonima crassifolia (Malpighiaceae), pollen, oil collecting, mimicry: Paratetrapedia tarsalis, mutualism: Membracidae, behavior)
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. [312, 313, 317] (as Trigona aff. fuscipennis, Trigona fuscipennis, Trigona cfr. fuscipennis [probably a new species], geographic record, cytogenetics, chromosomes number (N=17), figure: karyotype)
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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] (as Trigona aff. fuscipennis, foraging behavior, citation)
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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. [504, 507, 519, 523] (as Trigona (Trigona) fuscipennis, key, geographic range, taxonomic note, nesting site: in live termite nest, folk name: "zagaño", "enredapelos", figure: hind leg)
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Salt, G. (1929). A contribution to the ethology of the Meliponinae. Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 77 (2): 431-470 [431, 435, 438-441, 442, 447, 448-449, 455, 457, 461] (as Trigona amalthea, geographic records, nesting site: cavity in tree, nest characteristics, defense behavior, inquilines: mites: Celaenosthanus trigonophilus, Trigonholaspis salti, T. columbiana, T. trigonarum, T. amaltheae, parasites: Pseudohypocera nigrofascipes, Melitthophora salti (Diptera: Phoridae), folk name: "mapaitero", flower records: Musa sapientum, Antigonon leptopus, Hibiscus, Bombax, honeydew collecting: Membracidae, Aethalion reticulatum - citation, damaging: banana plantation, sap collecting: green banana, ; as Trigona fuscipennis [new species, fuscipennis group, see Camargo & Moure, 1988: 300], nesting site: in termite nest: Eutermes rippertii - citation, nests aggregation, parabiosis)
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Schwartz Filho, D. & Laroca, S. (1999). A comunidade de abelhas silvestres (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) da Ilha das Cobras (Paraná, Brasil): aspectos ecológicos e biogeográficos. Acta Biol. Paranaense (Curitiba) 28 (1,2,3,4): 19-108 [52, 66, 68, 78, 79] ([probably a new species], geographic record, relative abundance, nest population, citation)
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Schwarz, H. F. (1934). The social bees (Meliponidae) of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. Am. Mus. Novit. 731: 1-23 [3, 9] (as Trigona amalthea, key, synonymy, geographic records, fruit collecting: on berries of Coccoloba)
Schwarz, H. F. (1938). The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of British Guiana and some related forms. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 74: 437-508 [437, 442, 455-457] (as Trigona (Trigona) amalthea, partim [except Trigona amalthea (Olivier)] , key, synonymy, geographic records, geographic range, nesting site: in termite nest: Nasutitermes (N.) ephratae, Nasutitermes (N.) brevioculatus [= Eutermes rippertii from Silvestri, 1902:138-139], nest characteristics)
Schwarz, H. F. (1948). Stingless bees (Meliponidae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 90: xvii+546 [14,22,28, 34,39,49, 52,54,57, 61,72,73, 80,83,94, 105,106,] (107, 115, 133, 138, 198, 199, 203, 205, 207, 208, 209-223, 237, 247, 252, 254, 257, 258, 267, 276, 277, 286, 299, 451, 458, 478; as Trigona (Trigona) amalthea, partim [see Trigona amalthea Olivier and Trigona truculenta Almeida], nesting site: in termite nest, hollow trunk: Persea gratissima, royal cells, males, nest population, virgin queen, swarming, mutualism: Membracidae, honeydew collecting, damaging: banana, and Citrus, flower records: Pontederia cordata, Musa sapientum, Antigonon leptopus, Hibiscus, Bombax, Marrubium, inquilines: mites: Celaenosthanus trigonophilus, Trigonholaspis salti, T. columbiana, T. trigonarum, T. amaltheae, parasites: Pseudohypocera nigrofascipes, Melitthophora salti (Diptera: Phoridae), excrement of puma visiting, nest entrance, citation [Wheeler, 1913; Salt, 1929], hamuli, keys: worker, queen, male, diagnosis, description, figures [except figure 12, male], taxonomy, geographic records, geographic range [partim, except Venezuela, Trinidad, British Guiana, Surinam, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru and Bolivia], comparative notes)
Schwarz, H. F. (1949). The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of Mexico. An. Inst. Biol. Mex. 20 (1,2): 357-370 [362, 367] (as Trigona (Trigona) amalthea, list, geographic records, key)
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Serrão, J. E. & Cruz-Landim, C. (1996). Notes on the proventriculus structure of some Trigona species (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 40 (1): 1-2 [1, 2] (? uncertain identity, morphology, proventriculus, figure)
Silva, M.D. & Ramalho, M. (2014). Tree species used for nesting by stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) in the Atlantic Rain Forest (Brazil): Availability or Selectivity. Sociobiology 61 (4): 415-422 [417] (Distribution record)
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Silvestri, F. (1902). Contribuzione alla conoscenza dei Meliponidi del Bacino del Rio de la Plata. Rivista di Patologia Vegetale 10: 121-174 [138-139, 142, 170] ([probably a new species], folk name: "abelha brava", diagnosis, comparative notes, nesting site: in termite nest: Eutermes Rippertii [sic], aggressive behavior)
Silvestri, F. (1903). Contribuzione alla conoscenza dei termitidi e termitofili dell'America meridionale. Redia 1: 1-234 [187, 212] ([*from Schwarz, 1948: 210], nest)
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Smith, F. (1863). Descriptions of Brazilian Honey Bees belonging to the Genera Melipona and Trigona, which were exhibited, together with Samples of their Honey and Wax, in the Brazilian Court of the International Exhibition of 1862. Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 11: 497-512 [504, 510] (as Trigona amalthea, folk name: "sanharó", diagnosis, figure: plate 20 - figure 13, tongue)
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Strand, E. (1910). Uber einige amerikanische Hymenopteren des Naturhistorischen Museums zu Wiesbaden. Jahrb. Nassau. Ver. Naturkd. 63: 8-18 [12] (as Trigona fuscipennis, taxonomic note, comparative notes)
Strand, E. (1919). Über einige Apidae des Deutschen Entomologischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Abt. A 83 (11): 57-71 [69] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona fuscipennis, [according to Schwarz, 1948:210, possibly - Trigona corvina Cockerell], geographic record, taxonomic notes)
Vergara, C. B., Villa, A. L. & Nates-Parra, G. (1986). Nidificación de meliponinos (Hymenoptera: Apidae) de la región central de Colombia. Revista de Biologia Tropical 34(2): 181-184 [182, 183] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona (Trigona) fuscipennis, nest partially exposed, geographic records)
Viana, B. F. & Alves-dos-Santos, I. (2002). Bee diversity of the coastal sand dunes of Brazil pp. 135-153 in Kevan, P. G. & Imperatriz-Fonseca, V. L. (ed.) Pollinating bees: the conservation link between agriculture and nature. Brasília: Ministry of environment 313 pp. [147] (? uncertain identity [probably a new species], geographic record, habitat, citation)
Villa, A. & Vergara, C. (1982). Contribución al estudio de los hábitos de nidificación de algunas especies de abejas nativas sin aguijón (Hymenóptera, Apidae). Scientia 1 (2): 147-163 [151, 153, 157, 159] (as Trigona (Trigona) fuscipennis, partim, geographic records, nest characteristics)
Wheeler, W. M. (1913). Notes on the habits of some Central American stingless bees. Psyche 20 (1): 1-9 [1-2, 7] (as Trigona amalthea, partim [except citation of Silvestri and Ihering], geographic record, nesting site: in the base of tree, nest entrance, swarming, defense behavior, odor liberation)
Wille, A. (1961). Las abejas jicotes de Costa Rica. Revista de la Universidad de Costa Rica 22: 1-30 [17, 28] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona (Trigona) amalthea, nest, combs arrangement, folk name: "atarrá" [?], behavior, damaging: citrus [?], nest construction, nesting site: exposed [?])
Wille, A. (1963). Behavioral adaptations of bees for pollen collecting from Cassia flowers. Revista de Biologia Tropical 11 (2): 205-210 [207, 209] (behavior, pollen foraging: Cassia biflora)
Wille, A. (1983). Biology of the stingless bees. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 28: 41-64 [51, 60, 62] (as Trigona (Trigona) fuscipennis, nesting site: in termite nest, citation, 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, 31, 36, 49, 60, 72, 76, 98, 112, 231, 332-237, 265] (as Trigona (Trigona) fuscipennis, [partim: Costa Rica, Colombia; partim: Brasil, probably new species], nesting site: tree cavities, in termite nest: Nasutitermes, excavated by birds, geographic records, nest characteristics, taxonomic note, royal cells, figures: nest, honey, aggressiveness)
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) fuscipennis, pollination: Sechium edule (Cucurbitaceae), geographic records, altitudinal range, relative abundance)
Zanella, F. C. V., Schwartz Filho, D. & Laroca, S. (1998). Tropical bee island biogeography: diversity and abundance patterns. Biogeographica 74 (3): 103-115 [107, 111] ([probably new species], geographic record, relative abundance, defense behavior)
Zotarelli, H.G.S., Evans, D.M., Bego, L.R. & Sofia, S.H. (2014). A Comparison of Social Bee-Plant Networks between Two Urban Areas. Neotropical Entomology 43: 399-408 [supplementar material] (Distribution record)
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