Scaptotrigona luteipennis (Friese, 1902)
Common Name: "tapacara"
Trigona bipunctata luteipennis
Friese, H. (1902). Neue Meliponiden (Hym.). Z. Syst. Hymenopterol. Dipterol. 2: 382-383 [382] .
Type data: syntype USNM 23713 <F> worker (1) (type examined by Roubik, 1992: 516. Ayala, 1999: 92, said having examined the type of "<I>S. luteipennis" </I>deposited in ZMB, from Campinas, Brazil [certainly it is not a syntype!]) , syntype whereabouts unknown <F> worker (1).
Type locality: San Carlos, Costa Rica.
Trigona pachysoma
Cockerell, T. D. A (1917). New social bees. Psyche 24: 120-128 [125] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: holotype USNM 23164 <F> worker (See Roubik, 1992: 516) , paratype USNM <F> workers (?).
Type locality: Porto Bello, Panama, 20.IV.1912, A. Busck leg..
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Schwarz, H. F. (1934). The social bees (Meliponidae) of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. Am. Mus. Novit. 731: 1-23 [19]
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Mexico (Chiapas); Neotropical Region: Costa Rica, El Salvador (San Salvador), Panama (Colón, Darién, Panamá), Panama Canal Zone
References
Ayala, R. (1999). Revision de las abejas sin aguijon de Mexico (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Folia Entomológica Mexicana 106: 1-123 [5, 91, 92] (type examined [?], comparative notes, notes on type [error])
Bego, L. R., Zucchi, R. & Mateus, S. (1991). Notas sobre a estratégia alimentar (cleptobiose) de Lestrimelitta limao Smith (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae). Naturalia (São Paulo) 16: 119-127 [126] (as Scaptotrigona pachysoma, list, citation)
Cameron, S. A. (1993). Multiple origins of advanced eusociality in bees inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of 90: 8687-8691 [8682, 8689] (molecular analysis, DNA, phylogeny)
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Friese, H. (1916). Zur bienenfauna von Costa Rica (Hym.). Stett. Entomol. Ztg. 77: 287-348 [299, 348] (as Trigona bipunctata luteipennis, geographic record, taxonomic notes, comparative note)
Griswold, T., Parker, F. D. & Hanson, P. E. (1995). The bees (Apidae) pp. 650-691 in Hanson, P. E. & Gauld, I. D. (ed.) The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica. London: Natural History Museum 893 pp. [684, 690] (nesting site: in tree, nest characteristics, list)
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 [273, 283] (as Trigona (Scaptotrigona) luteipennis and Trigona (Scaptotrigona) pachysoma, male aggregation, nest density, population, citation)
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 [214] (as Trigona bipunctata luteipennis, taxonomic character, tibia)
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 [496, 499] (as Trigona bipunctata luteipennis and Trigona pachysoma, list, geographic record, citation)
Michener, C. D. (1946). Notes on the habits of some panamanian stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae). J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 54 (3): 179-197 [180, 182, 189, 192] (as Trigona pachysoma, geographic record, nest density, nesting sites: in stone walls, tree trunks, nest entrance, nest characteristics, defense behavior, aggressiveness, parasite: phorid flies)
Michener, C. D. (1954). Bees of Panamá. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 104 (1): 5-175 [170] (as Trigona (Scaptotrigona) pachysoma, synonymy, geographic records)
Michener, C. D. (1990). Classification of the Apidae (Hymenoptera). Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 54 (4): 75-164 [100] (as Scaptotrigona pahysoma, figure: labial palpi)
Michener, C. D. & Roubik, D. W. (1993). Observations on the labium of meliponine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) pp. 251-265 in Inoue, T. & Yamane, S. (ed.) Evolution of insect societies: Comparative sociology of bees, wasps and ants. Tokyo: Hakuhin-sha Publishing Co. [255, 257] (as Scaptotrigona pachysoma, morphology, labial palpi, figure)
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Roubik, D. W. (1993). Direct costs of forest reproduction, bee-cycling and the efficiency of pollination modes. Journal of Biosciences 18 (4): 537-553 [548] (geographic range)
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Roubik, D. W. & Wolda, H. (2000). Male and female bee dynamics in a lowland tropical forest pp. 167-174 in International Bee Research Association (ed.) Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Apiculture in Tropical Climates. Cardiff: IBRA [168, 169, 171] (light traps, seasonality, relative abundance, males)
Roubik, D. W., Yanega, D., Aluja S., M., Buchmann, S. L. & Inouye, D. W. (1995). On optimal nectar foraging by some tropical bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Apidologie 26: 197-211 [199, 203, 204, 205] (nectar foraging, sugar concentration)
Sakagami, S. F., Roubik, D. W. & Zucchi, R. (1993). Ethology of the robber stingless bee, Lestrimelitta limao (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Sociobiology 21 (2): 237-277 [243, 260, 261] (raid: Lestrimelitta limao)
Schultz, T. R., Engel, M. S. & Prentice, M. (1999). Resolving conflict between morphological and molecular evidence for the origin of eusociality in the "corbiculate" bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae): a hypothesis-testing approach pp. 125-138 in Byers, G. W., Hagen, R. H. & Brooks, R. W. (ed.) Entomological contributions in memory of Byron A. Alexander. University of Kansas Natural History Museum Special Publications 24. Lawrence: University of Kansas Natural History Museum [130] (phylogeny, morphology, molecular analysis, citation)
Schwarz, H. F. (1934). The social bees (Meliponidae) of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. Am. Mus. Novit. 731: 1-23 [19] (as Trigona postica luteipennis, synonymy, geographic records, taxonomic notes, comparative notes)
Schwarz, H. F. (1938). The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of British Guiana and some related forms. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 74: 437-508 [482] (as Trigona (Nannotrigona) luteipennis, synonymy, taxonomic note)
Schwarz, H. F. (1948). Stingless bees (Meliponidae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 90: xvii+546 [12, 57] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona (Scaptotrigona) luteipennis, geographic record, males aggregation; as Trigona (Scaptotrigona) pachysoma, nest density, citation)
Whitfield, J. B. & Cameron, S. A. (1998). Hierarchial analysis of variation in the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene among Hymenoptera. Mol. Biol. Evol. 15 (12): 1728-1743 [1731, 1733, 1734, 1739] (list, genebank, citation, molecular analysis, DNA, phylogeny)
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 [13, 22, 46, 68] (as Trigona (Scaptotrigona) pachysoma, nesting site: tree cavities, artificial cavities, nest characteristics, citation)
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