Melipona (Eomelipona) bicolor, LEPELETIER

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) : -

MELIPONA (EOMELIPONA) BICOLOR LEPELETIER

Figure 8

Except for the strongly pigmented mandibles and small body size (see table 1), the mature larva of this species with its very small head relative to body size (fig. 8) is as described for M. fallax (Rozen et al., 2019b: fig. 31).

MATERIAL STUDIED: 1 postdefecating and 2 predefecating larvae: Brazil, São Paulo, Jaguariuna. 27-I-2020. E.A.B. Almeida .