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Issue: Vol. 5404 No. 1: 25 Jan. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-01-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5404.1.8
Page range: 102-123
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The taxonomic identity of Trigona lacteipennis Friese, 1900 and description of a new bee species of the Trigona cilipes (Fabricius, 1804) group (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

Laboratório de Bionomia; Biogeografia e Sistemática de Insetos (BIOSIS); Instituto de Biologia (IBIO); Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA); Rua Barão de Jeremoabo; número 668; Campus Universitário de Ondina; CEP: 40170-115; Salvador; Bahia; Brazil
Division of Invertebrate Zoology; American Museum of Natural History; Central Park West at 79th Street; New York; New York 10024-5192; USA
Department of Agroecology; Section for Entomology and Plant Pathology; Forsøgsvej 1; 4200 Slagelse; Denmark
Fundação Universidade Federal de Rondônia; Presidente Médici; Rondônia; Brazil
Departamento de Zoologia; Universidade Federal do Paraná; Caixa Postal 19020; 81531-980; Curitiba; Paraná; Brazil
Hymenoptera Anthophila Morphology Neotropics Stingless bees Taxonomy

Abstract

A critical study of type material for Trigona lacteipennis Friese, 1900 and allied species is presented along with a discussion of literature data. This work reveals that T. lacteipennis is a junior subjective synonym of Melipona paupera Provancher, 1889 (new synonymy), a species currently classified placed in the genus Frieseomelitta. Similarly, T. lehmanni Friese, 1901 and T. parastigma Cockerell, 1918 are also junior subjective synonyms of Melipona paupera (new synonymies). Morphological characters, photographic illustrations of type specimens, and data on distribution are provided for Frieseomelitta paupera. Also, we describe a new species of Trigona cilipes species group, Trigona (Aphaneuropsis) silveirai sp. nov., which is very similar to the former and had been misidentified with it.

 

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