Frieseomelitta
A Frieseomelitta varia guard bee standing next to the nest entrance
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

  • 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

  1. Grüter, Christoph (2020). Stingless Bees: Their Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution. Springer New York. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-60090-7. ISBN 978-3-030-60089-1.
  2. Enrico de Lazaro: Scientists Sequence Genome of Brazilian Stingless Bee, on: sci-news, Sep 1, 2020.
  3. 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


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