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Issue: Vol. 5306 No. 3: 21 Jun. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-06-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5306.3.3
Page range: 349-366
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Review of Trigona (Nostotrigona) Engel, 2021 from Brazil with description of three new species (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

Fundação Universidade Federal de Rondônia. Presidente Médici; Rondônia; Brazil
Instituto Federal de Educação; Ciência e Tecnologia do Amazonas. São Gabriel da Cachoeira; Amazonas; Brazil
Universidade Federal da Bahia; Instituto de Biologia. Salvador; Bahia; Brazil
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia. Manaus; Amazonas; Brazil
Hymenoptera Stingless bees Neotropics Taxonomy Morphology Anthophila

Abstract

Trigona Jurine, 1807 (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) is a Neotropical genus of stingless bees that is most diverse in the Amazon biome. The subgenus T. (Nostotrigona) was recently described and contains the taxa of the T. recursa species-group. In the present study, three new species of this subgenus are described: T. daianeae sp. nov., T. juvenili sp. nov., and T. mandaloriana sp. nov., including new records of T. permodica Almeida, 1992 for Brazil. A distribution map for T. (Nostotrigona) species are also provided.

 

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