Plebeia

Plebeia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Apoidea
Family: Apidae
Subfamily: Apinae
Tribe: Meliponini
Genus: Plebeia
Schwarz, 1938
Species

~35 species; see text

Plebeia is a small genus of stingless bees, formerly including in the genus Trigona. Most of the 35 species are placed in the subgenus (Plebeia) (s.s.), but there also are four species in the subgenus (Scaura). They differ in only minor structural details, primarily of the hind leg, from other genera that were formerly treated as constituents of Trigona.

Since its separation from the genus Trigona, the genus Schwarziana, as in the species Schwarziana quadripunctata, has also been separated into a new and distinct category after the 1943 work of Padre J.S. Moure. Today, he is occasionally referred to as "the Father of Brazilian bee taxonomy."[1]

Range

Plebeia species occur from Mexico southward through Argentina.

List of Species[2]

References

  1. Michener, C.D. (2007). The Bees of the World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  2. "ITIS Standard Report Page: Plebeia". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2015-11-06.
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