Intratribal Variation among Mature Larvae of Stingless Bees (Apidae: Meliponini) with Descriptions of the Eggs of 11 Species

IF 1.1 3区环境科学与生态学 Q3 BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

American Museum Novitates Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI:10.1206/3971.1

J. G. Rozen, E. A. Almeida, C. Smith, Lance E. Jones

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The abundant members of the Meliponini (stingless bees) are restricted to the tropics and subtropics worldwide. Because past studies of the anatomy of their mature larvae are limited, revealing little anatomical variation in the tribe, the current investigation attempts to examine this topic more thoroughly. Herein we describe the mature larvae of 30 species representing 16 genera of a total world fauna of perhaps 32 genera. Although the larvae of most taxa show little anatomical diversity, two species, Trigona (Duckeola) ghilianii Spinola and Trigona (Frieseomelitta) varia (Lepeletier), have mature larvae that differ remarkably in anatomical structure from those of other known stingless bees, and, further, their individual anatomies suggest a close evolutionary relationship. Larval evidence is presented indicating that Trichotrigona extranea (Camargo and Moure) is also related to these two taxa. Because eggs are often included in collections of bee larvae, this study adds descriptions of the eggs of 11 species of the Meliponini not previously characterized as well as a list of those that had been treated earlier.

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无刺蜂(蜜蜂科)成熟幼虫的部落内变异及11种卵的记述

摘要：Meliponini（无刺蜜蜂）的丰富成员仅限于全球热带和亚热带地区。由于过去对其成熟幼虫解剖结构的研究有限，几乎没有揭示出该部落的解剖变化，因此目前的研究试图更彻底地研究这一主题。在这里，我们描述了30个物种的成熟幼虫，代表了世界动物群的16个属，可能有32个属。尽管大多数分类群的幼虫在解剖学上几乎没有多样性，但有两个物种，Trigona（Dukeola）ghilianii Spinola和Trigona。幼虫证据表明外毛三角藻（Camargo和Moure）也与这两个分类群有关。由于蜜蜂幼虫的采集中经常会有卵，这项研究增加了对11种Meliponini的卵的描述，以及之前处理过的卵的列表。

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American Museum Novitates 环境科学-动物学

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

6.70%

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>36 weeks

期刊介绍： The Novitates (Latin for "new acquaintances"), published continuously and numbered consecutively since 1921, are short papers that contain descriptions of new forms and reports in zoology, paleontology, and geology.