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Tetragonula devicta (Cockerell, 1921)
Meliponorytes devictus Cockerell 1921: 514-515: Holotype (BMNH In. 20702) (illustration, taxonomy); Type locality: MYANMAR "bead of clear pale Burmese amber from the Hukong Valley, received from Mr. R.C.J. Swinhoe" (worker); Cockerell 1922b: (age of fossil); Kerr & Maule 1964: (systematics, taxonomy); Kerr & Esch 1965: (comparative note); Kerr 1969: 166 (systematics); Kerr & Cunha 1976: (systematics); Zeuner & Manning 1976: 222, 223, 224 (synonymy); Wille 1977: (systematics); Moure & Camargo 1978: 564-565 (morphology); Sakagami 1978: 216, 218-219 (synonymy); Wille 1979b: 243 (comparative note); Grimaldi et al. 1995: 261, 262; Wu 2000: 392 (synonymy); Zherikhin & Ross 2000: 6, 13-14 (synonymy).
Notes
Published as part of Rasmussen, Claus, 2008, Catalog of the Indo-Malayan / Australasian stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini), pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 1935 on page 35
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Additional details
- Cockerell, T. D. A. (1921) Fossil arthropods in the British Museum. - VII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, [9] 8, 541 - 545.
- Cockerell, T. D. A. (1922 b) Fossils in burmese amber. Nature, 109, 713 - 714.
- Kerr, W. E. & Maule, V. (1964) Geographic distribution of stingless bees and its implications (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 72, 2 - 18.
- Kerr, W. E. (1969) Some aspects of the evolution of social bees (Apidae). Evolutionary Biology, 3, 119 - 175.
- Kerr, W. E. & Cunha, R. A. d. (1976) Taxonomic position of two social bees (Apidae). Revista de Biologia Tropical, 24, 35 - 43.
- Zeuner, F. E. & Manning, F. J. (1976) A monograph on fossil bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), edited with an appendix by Samuel Francis Morris. Bulletin of the British Musem (Natural History), series Geology, 27, 149 - 268.
- Wille, A. (1977) A general review of the fossil stingless bees. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 25, 43 - 46.
- Moure, J. S. & Camargo, J. M. F. (1978) A fossil stingless bee from copal (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 51, 560 - 566.
- Sakagami, S. F. (1978) Tetragonula stingless bees of the continental Asia and Sri Lanka (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Series VI, Zoology, 21, 165 - 247.
- Wille, A. (1979 b) Phylogeny and relationships among the genera and subgenera of the stingless bees (Meliponinae) of the world. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 27, 241 - 277.
- Grimaldi, D. A., Shedrinsky, A., Ross, A. J., & Baer, N. S. (1995) Forgeries of fossils in " amber ": history, identification and case studies. Curator (New York), 37, 251 - 274.
- Wu, Y. (2000). [Original title in Chinese = Hymenoptera Melittidae Apidae]. In: Fauna Sinica, Insecta. Vol. 20, Science Press, Beijing, pp. 1 - 442, pls. 1 - 9.
- Zherikhin, V. V. & Ross, A. J. (2000) A review of the history, geology and age of Burmese amber (Burmite). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Geology), 56, 3 - 10.