Notes on a primitive stingless bee, Trigona ( Nogueirapis ) mirandula
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| 格式: | artículo original |
| 狀態: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 1964 |
| 實物特徵: | A primitive stingless bee, Trigona (Nogueirapis) mirandula Cockerell, was studied in the following aspects: 1) historical background of the bee; 2) relationships of T. mirandula to T. butteli and the fossil form, T. silacea, and their general relations to the groups Partamona and Plebeia; 3) geographic distribution of the bee in Central America and Colombia; 4) The occurrence of color dimorphism in this bee: a ferruginous form, which was the only type known previously, and a melanic form, described for the first time in this paper; 5) description of the male and queen, which were unknown for the subgenus until the present; 6) a general survey of the ground nesting species of stingless bees and a description of the nest of T. mirandula; 7) the habitat of the bee in the Tropical Moist forest; and 8) the general behavior of the bee outside the nest. |
| País: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| 機構: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| 語言: | Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/31348 |
| 在線閱讀: | https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/31348 |