Nannotrigona melanocera, (SCHWARZ)

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) : -

NANNOTRIGONA MELANOCERA (SCHWARZ)

Figures 9, 33A, B

DESCRIPTION: Head: Size moderate relative to body size (fig. 9), broad in frontal view (fig. 34A).

Mandibular apex moderately pigmented; mandible seen in outer view (fig. 33B) slen- der, narrowing evenly from base to extremely narrow apex; apex bending hook-like toward buccal cavity; dorsal apical edge of mandible with numerous long, slender, sharp spines as seen in inner view but not in outer view (fig. 33B); cuspal area spiculate but not projecting.

Body: Area centered on paired tubercle on caudal annulets of anterior body segments tending to be somewhat transversely elevated (fig. 9); these areas staining readily with