Plebeia tica (Wille, 1969)
Trigona (Plebeia) tica
Wille, A. (1969). A new species of stingless bee Trigona (Plebeia) from Costa Rica, with descriptions of its general behavior and cluster-type nest. Revista de Biologia Tropical 15(2): 299-313 [299] .
Type data: holotype UCR <F> worker , paratype UCR <F> worker (10) , paratype SEMK <F> workers (5) , paratype DZUP <F> workers (5).
Type locality: Playas del Coco, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, A. Wille leg..
Etymology: from "ticus", nickname for a Costa Rican.
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Costa Rica (Guanacaste, Heredia)
References
Ayala, R. (1999). Revision de las abejas sin aguijon de Mexico (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Folia Entomológica Mexicana 106: 1-123 [5] (as Plebeia (Plebeia) tica, paratype examined [AMNH?], comparative notes)
Benthem, F. D. J., Imperatriz-Fonseca, V. L. & Velthuis, H. H. W. (1995). Biology of the stingless bee Plebeia remota (Holmberg): observations and evolutionary implications. Insectes Soc. 42: 71-87 [72] (behavior, citation)
Drumond, P. M., Bego, L. R. & Melo, G. A. R. (1995). Nest architecture of the stingless bee Plebeia poecilochroa Moure & Camargo, 1993 and related considerations (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae). Iheringia, Sér. Zool. 79: 39-45 [39] (nest, citation)
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. [682, 683, 684, 690] (as Plebeia (Plebeia) tica, nesting sites: hollow branches, lianas, nest entrance, nest characteristics, list)
Melo, G. A. R. & Costa, M. A. (2009). A new cluster-brood building species of Plebeia (Hymenoptera, Apidae) from eastern Brazil. Rev. Bras. Entomol. 53: 77-81 [81] (brood cells in clusters, citation)
Michener, C. D. (1990). Classification of the Apidae (Hymenoptera). Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 54 (4): 75-164 [113] (as Plebeia (Plebeia) tica, list)
Michener, C. D. (2000). The bees of the World. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 913 pp. [798] (as Plebeia (Plebeia) tica, combs)
Rincón, M., Roubik, D. W., Finegan, B., Delgado, D., Zamora, N. (2000). Understory bees and floral resources in logged and silviculturally treated Costa Rican rainforest plots. J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 72 (4): 379-393 [384] (list, geographic record, managed forest)
Sakagami, S. F. (1982). Stingless bees pp. 361-421 in Hermann, H. R. (ed.) Social Insects Vol. 3. New York: Academic Press [408] (cells arrangement)
Sakagami, S. F., Camilo, C. & Zucchi, R. (1973). Oviposition behavior of a brazilian stingless bee, Plebeia (Friesella) schrottkyi, with some remarks on the behavioral evolution in stingless bees. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Univer 19 (1): 163-189 [181] (nest characteristics, comparative notes)
Wille, A. (1969). A new species of stingless bee Trigona (Plebeia) from Costa Rica, with descriptions of its general behavior and cluster-type nest. Revista de Biologia Tropical 15(2): 299-313 [299-313] (as Trigona (Plebeia) tica, description: worker, queen, geographic record, nesting site: house wood bases: Gliricidia sepium, Caesalpinia eriostachys (Leguminosae), nest characteristics, behavior, nest population, daily activity, guard bee, figures: nests)
Wille, A. (1983). Biology of the stingless bees. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 28: 41-64 [48, 50, 60] (as Trigona (Plebeia) tica, figure: cells, cells arrangement, honey characteristics)
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 [11, 19, 32, 43, 54, 65, 80, 82, 113-117, 124, 265, 268] (as Trigona (Plebeia) tica, nesting site: slender tubular tree cavities, geographic record, habitat, nest characteristics, nest entrance, honey, figures: nest entrance, nest, citation)
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] (geographic records, pollination: Sechium edule (Cucurbitaceae))
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