Trigonisca discolor

Trigonisca discolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animals
Type of:	Arthropods
Grade:	Insects
Squad:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Belly-bellied
Superfamily:	Bees
Family:	Real bees
Subfamily:	Apinae
Tribe:	Meliponini
Gender:	Trigonisca
View:	Trigonisca discolor
Latin name
	Trigonisca discolor (Wille, 1965)
Synonyms
	Trigona discolor Wille, 1965; Trigonisca rhodopta; Wille, A. & CD Michener, 1973 (nom. Nud.);

Trigonisca discolor (lat.) - a species of stingless bees from the tribe Meliponini of the Apidae family. Ghost workers with several sets in addition to small hairs. Do not use a sting when protecting. The sting has been preserved, but in a strongly reduced form. The species was first described in 1965 by the entomologist A. Wille, under the original name Trigona (Trigonisca) discolor . Nest in tree cavities ^[1] ^[2] ^[3] .

Content

Distribution

Neotropics: Costa Rica (San José) ^[4] ^[5] ^[6] .

Notes

↑ Wille, A. (1965). A new species of stingless bee (Meliponini) from Costa Rica. Rev. Biol. Trop. 13 (1): 139-141 [140].
↑ Albuquerque, PMC (1992). Revisão do gênero Trigonisca Moure, 1950 (Meliponinae, Apidae, Hymenoptera). [dissertation abstract] pp. 16-17 in Soares, AEE & De Jong, D. (ed.) Pesquisas com abelhas no Brasil. Ribeirão Preto: Revista Brasileira de Genética 680 pp. [17] (note)
↑ Wille, A. & CD 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, 20, 33, 55, 66, 125, 136, 265, 268] (as Trigona (Trigonisca) sp. B and Trigona (Trigonisca) rhodopta, nesting site: slender tubular tree cavity, geographic record, nest characteristics, figure: nest, nest population, honey, nest characters)
↑ Catalog of Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in the Neotropical Region
↑ Michener, CD ( 2007 ) The bees of the world, second edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 953 pp.
↑ Griswold, T., Parker, FD & Hanson, PE (1995). The bees (Apidae) pp. 650-691 in Hanson, PE & Gauld, ID (ed.) The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica. London: Natural History Museum 893 pp. [650, 690] (body size, list; as Trigonisca rhodopta, list)

Literature

Albuquerque, PMC & Camargo, JMF (2007). Espécies novas de Trigonisca Moure (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 51 (2): 160-175 [160].

Links

[1] Wille, A. (1965). A new species of stingless bee (Meliponini) from Costa Rica. Rev. Biol. Trop. 13 (1): 139-141 [140].

[2] Albuquerque, PMC (1992). Revisão do gênero Trigonisca Moure, 1950 (Meliponinae, Apidae, Hymenoptera). [dissertation abstract] pp. 16-17 in Soares, AEE & De Jong, D. (ed.) Pesquisas com abelhas no Brasil. Ribeirão Preto: Revista Brasileira de Genética 680 pp. [17] (note)

[Wille1973-3] Wille, A. & CD 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, 20, 33, 55, 66, 125, 136, 265, 268] (as Trigona (Trigonisca) sp. B and Trigona (Trigonisca) rhodopta, nesting site: slender tubular tree cavity, geographic record, nest characteristics, figure: nest, nest population, honey, nest characters)

[4] Catalog of Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in the Neotropical Region

[5] Michener, CD ( 2007 ) The bees of the world, second edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 953 pp.

[6] Griswold, T., Parker, FD & Hanson, PE (1995). The bees (Apidae) pp. 650-691 in Hanson, PE & Gauld, ID (ed.) The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica. London: Natural History Museum 893 pp. [650, 690] (body size, list; as Trigonisca rhodopta, list)