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Hypotrigona Cockerell

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Apoidea; Family: Apidae; Subfamily: Apinae; Tribe: Meliponini)

Hypotrigona Cockerell, 1934

 

Hypotrigona araujoi (Michener, 1959) (Angola)

Hypotrigona gribodoi (Magretti, 1884) (Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Gabon, Kenya, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe)

 

Hypotrigona penna Eardley, 2005 (Mali, Niger, Senegal)

 

Hypotrigona ruspolii (Magretti, 1898) (Angola, Cameroon, Congo, East Africa, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria, Sao Thomé, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

 

Hypotrigona squamuligera (Benoist, 1937) (Sudan, Palaearctic)

Distribution

 

Biology

 

References

Eardley, C.D. 2004. Taxonomic revision of the African stingless bees (Apoidea: Apidae: Apinae: Meliponini). African Plant Protection 10: 63–96.

Eardley, C & Urban, R. 2010. Catalogue of Afrotropical bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apiformes). Zootaxa 2455: 1-548.

Eardley, C, Finnamore, A.T. & Michener, C.D. 1993. Superfamily Apoidea (pp. 279-357). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Michener, C.D. 2000. The Bees of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press. 953 pp.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa)


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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