Frieseomelitta
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| A Frieseomelitta varia guard bee standing next to the nest entrance | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
| Clade: | Corbiculata |
| Tribe: | Meliponini |
| Genus: | Frieseomelitta Ihering, 1912 |
Frieseomelitta is a stingless bee (Meliponini) genus in the family Apidae. It currently contains about 16 described species:[1]
- Frieseomelitta dispar
- Frieseomelitta doederleini
- Frieseomelitta flavicornis
- Frieseomelitta francoi
- Frieseomelitta freiremaiai
- Frieseomelitta languida
- Frieseomelitta lehmanni
- Frieseomelitta longipes
- Frieseomelitta meadewaldoi
- Frieseomelitta nigra
- Frieseomelitta paranigra
- Frieseomelitta paupera
- Frieseomelitta portoi
- Frieseomelitta silvestrii
- Frieseomelitta trichocerata
- Frieseomelitta varia[2][3]
Bibliography
[edit]- Wolf Engels (Editor): Social Insects: An Evolutionary Approach to Castes and Reproduction, Springer Science & Business Media, Dec 6, 2012 - 265 pages. ISBN 978-3-642-74490-7. Here: Chapter 7: Wolf Engels, Vera L. Imperatriz-Fonseca: Caste Development, Reproductive Strategies, and Control of Fertility in Honey Bees and Stingless Bees, 4.3 Young Queens in the Multigynous Stingless Bee Nest, p186
References
[edit]- ^ Grüter, Christoph (2020). Stingless Bees: Their Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution. Fascinating Life Sciences. Springer New York. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-60090-7. ISBN 978-3-030-60089-1.
- ^ Enrico de Lazaro: Scientists Sequence Genome of Brazilian Stingless Bee, on: sci-news, Sep 1, 2020.
- ^ Flávia C. de Paula Freitas, Anete P. Lourenço, Daniel G. Pinheiro et al.: The nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of Frieseomelitta varia – a highly eusocial stingless bee (Meliponini) with a permanently sterile worker caste. In: BMC Genomics 21, 386; Jun 3, 2020. doi:10.1186/s12864-020-06784-8