Scaptotrigona (Eoscaptotrigona), Engel, 2022, Engel, 2022

Engel, Michael S., 2022, Notes on South American stingless bees of the genus Scaptotrigona (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Part III: A revised infrageneric classification and new species, Journal of Melittology 2022 (111), pp. 1-29 : 7

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.17161/jom.i111.17013

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:46E1DFBC-8C91-4506-A3A8-53D4781EFF32

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8135849

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Scaptotrigona (Eoscaptotrigona)
status

subgen. nov.

Key to Species of Eoscaptotrigona

1. Metasomal tergum I without erect, black bristles apicolaterally on dorsal-facing surface; wings orange fuscous ........................................................................ 2

—. Metasomal tergum I with minute, erect, black bristles apicolaterally on dorsal-facing surface; wings infumate [ Venezuela, Colombia] ............... S. totobi , n. sp.

2(1). Suberect to subdecumbent, black bristles abundant on metasomal terga III–VI [ Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua] ........................................... S. luteipennis (Friese) View in CoL

—. Suberect to subdecumbent, black bristles abundant on metasomal terga IV–VI, those of tergum III noticeably shorter and somewhat sparser than those of succeeding terga [ Bolivia, Brazil, Peru] ..................................... S. polysticta Moure View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Genus

Scaptotrigona

SubGenus

Eoscaptotrigona

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