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Meliponini 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 633943

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Tribe  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s):    
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2020   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderHolometabola   
                               OrderHymenoptera  – abelha, formiga, vespa, ants, bees, wasps  
                                  SuborderApocrita  – abeilles, fourmis, guêpes véritables, narrow-waisted hymenopterans, ants, bees, true wasps  
                                     InfraorderAculeata   
                                        SuperfamilyApoidea  – bees, sphecoid wasps, apoid wasps  
                                           FamilyApidae  – euglossine, euglossines, honey bees, stingless bees  
                                              SubfamilyApinae   
                                                 TribeMeliponini   
    Direct Children:  
                                                    GenusApotrigona Moure, 1961  
                                                    GenusAustroplebeia Moure, 1961  
                                                    GenusAxestotrigona Moure, 1961  
                                                    GenusCamargoia Moure, 1989  
                                                    GenusCephalotrigona Schwarz, 1940  
                                                    GenusCleptotrigona Moure, 1961  
                                                    GenusDactylurina Cockerell, 1934  
                                                    GenusDuckeola Moure, 1944  
                                                    GenusFriesella Moure, 1946  
                                                    GenusFrieseomelitta Ihering, 1912  
                                                    GenusGeniotrigona Moure, 1961  
                                                    GenusGeotrigona Moure, 1943  
                                                    GenusHeterotrigona Schwarz, 1939  
                                                    GenusHomotrigona Moure, 1961  
                                                    GenusHypotrigona Cockerell, 1934  
                                                    GenusLepidotrigona Schwarz, 1939  
                                                    GenusLestrimelitta Friese, 1903  
                                                    GenusLeurotrigona Moure, 1950  
                                                    GenusLiotrigona Moure, 1961  
                                                    GenusLisotrigona Moure, 1961  
                                                    GenusMeliplebeia Moure, 1961  
                                                    GenusMelipona Illiger, 1806  
                                                    GenusMeliponula Cockerell, 1934  
                                                    GenusMeliwillea Roubik, Lobo Segura and Camargo, 1997  
                                                    GenusMourella Schwarz, 1946  
                                                    GenusNannotrigona Cockerell, 1922  
                                                    GenusNogueirapis Moure, 1953  
                                                    GenusOxytrigona Cockerell, 1917  
                                                    GenusPapuatrigona Michener and Sakagami, 1990  
                                                    GenusParatrigona Schwarz, 1938  
                                                    GenusParatrigonoides Camargo and Roubik, 2005  
                                                    GenusPariotrigona Moure, 1961  
                                                    GenusPartamona Schwarz, 1939  
                                                    GenusPlebeia Schwarz, 1938  
                                                    GenusPlebeiella Moure, 1961  
                                                    GenusPlebeina Moure, 1961  
                                                    GenusPlectoplebeia Melo, 2016  
                                                    GenusPtilotrigona Moure, 1951  
                                                    GenusScaptotrigona Moure, 1942  
                                                    GenusScaura Schwarz, 1938  
                                                    GenusSchwarziana Moure, 1943  
                                                    GenusTetragona Lepeletier and Audinet-Serville, 1828  
                                                    GenusTetragonisca Moure, 1946  
                                                    GenusTetragonula Moure, 1961  
                                                    GenusTrichotrigona Camargo and Moure, 1983  
                                                    GenusTrigona Jurine, 1807  
                                                    GenusTrigonisca Moure, 1950  
                                                    GenusWallacetrigona Engel and Rasmussen, 2017  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: John S. Ascher, PhD   
  Notes: Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore   
  Reference for: Meliponini    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist - Draft-54, website (version Draft-54)  
  Acquired: 2020   
  Notes: Ascher, J. S. and J. Pickering. 01 February, 2020. Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila). http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?guide=Apoidea_species   
  Reference for: Meliponini   
       
  Source: Hymenoptera Name Server version 1.5 19.xii.2007, website (version 1.5)  
  Acquired: 2018   
  Notes: https://hns.osu.edu/   
  Reference for: Meliponini   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Camargo, J. M. F., and Pedro, S. R. M. / Moure, J. S., D. Urban, and G. A. R. Melo, (Orgs.)   
  Publication Date: 2007   
  Article/Chapter Title: Meliponini Lepeletier, 1836   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Catalogue of Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in the Neotropical Region   
  Page(s): 272-578   
  Publisher: Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia   
  Publication Place: Curitiba, Brazil   
  ISBN/ISSN: 9788585729080   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Meliponini   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Michener, Charles D.   
  Publication Date: 2000   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Bees of the World   
  Page(s): xiv + 913   
  Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-6133-0   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Meliponini   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Michener, Charles D.   
  Publication Date: 2007   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Bees of the World, Second Edition   
  Page(s): xvi + 953   
  Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8573-6   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Meliponini   
       

 Geographic Information
       
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 Comments
       
  Comment: For the Meliponini ITIS is following a generic treatment supported by works, published and nearing completion, by C. Rasmussen, rather than those used in Michener (2007). See Moure et al. (2007) for New World genera and Moure (1961) for Old World genera  
 

 

    


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