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Tetragonula devicta

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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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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Cockerell
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Apidae
Genus
Tetragonula
Species
devicta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Tetragonula devicta (Cockerell, 1921) sec. Rasmussen, 2008

References

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  • 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.
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  • 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.