Geotrigona kaba Gonzalez & Sepulveda

Gonzalez, Victor H. & Engel, Michael S., 2012, A new species of Geotrigona Moure from the Caribbean coast of Colombia (Hymenoptera, Apidae), ZooKeys 172, pp. 77-87 : 81

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.172.2735

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scientific name

Geotrigona kaba Gonzalez & Sepulveda
status

 

Geotrigona kaba Gonzalez & Sepulveda

Geotrigona kaba Gonzalez & Sepúlveda, 2007: 104 [♀]

New record.

Colombia: 1♀, Dept. Boyacá, Muzo [5°31'48"N, 74°6'36"W], 900 m, 1936, J. Bequaert collector (AMNH).

Comments.

This species was previously known only from the type locality (Porce, Antioquia) in northwestern Colombia. The worker at the AMNH was collected on the western slope of the Eastern Andes in central Colombia and bears a red label indicating a holotype designation by H.F. Schwarz, who intended to name it after the department.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Genus

Geotrigona