Published June 28, 2021 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Melipona (Eomelipona) bicolor Lepeletier

Description

MELIPONA (EOMELIPONA) BICOLOR LEPELETIER Figure 8

Except for the strongly pigmented mandibles and small body size (see table 1), the mature larva of this species with its very small head relative to body size (fig. 8) is as described for M. fallax (Rozen et al., 2019b: fig. 31).

MATERIAL STUDIED: 1 postdefecating and 2 predefecating larvae: Brazil, São Paulo, Jaguariuna. 27-I-2020. E.A.B. Almeida.

Notes

Published as part of Rozen, Jerome G., Almeida, Eduardo A. B., Smith, Corey Shepard & Jones, Lance Eric, 2021, Intratribal Variation among Mature Larvae of Stingless Bees (Apidae: Meliponini) with Descriptions of the Eggs of 11 Species in American Museum Novitates 2021 (3971), DOI: 10.1206/3971.1

Files

Files (804 Bytes)

Name Size Download all
md5:895299186d478aa991d5414ba22dde0d
804 Bytes Download

System files (5.8 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:c406f576f6cc7e225675f79ba3f703f6
5.8 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2020-01-27
Verbatim event date
2020-01-27
Scientific name authorship
Lepeletier
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Apidae
Genus
Melipona
Species
bicolor
Taxon rank
species