Plebeia (Plebeia), (PLEBEIA)

Rozen, Jerome G., Almeida, Eduardo A. B., Smith, Corey Shepard & Jones, Lance Eric, 2021, Intratribal Variation among Mature Larvae of Stingless Bees (Apidae: Meliponini) with Descriptions of the Eggs of 11 Species, American Museum Novitates 2021 (3971) : -

PLEBEIA (PLEBEIA) “NAN1”

Figure 13

Rozen et al. (2019a) described the postdefecating larva of this currently unnamed species of Plebeia and in so doing, illustrated it with SEM micrographs (therein, figs. 12–14) of its multipronged spicules. The specimens had been collected on IX-24-2018 by David Roubik from the Yasuni Scientific Field Station in Ecuador as was Plebeia “nan2” somewhat more than a year later, in the same tree; see below.