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Xylocopa frontalis (Olivier, 1789)

Apis frontalis Olivier, 1789:64, sex not indicated.Cayenne. - As Xylocopa frontalis: - Lepeletier, 1841Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, A. 1841. Histoire Naturelles des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Vol. 2. Paris. (distribution); Smith, 1854Smith, F. 1854. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. London. 465 pp, 8 pl. (distribution); Smith, 1874Smith, F. 1874. Monograph of the genus Xylocopa, Latr. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London :247-302. (distribution); Burmeister, 1876Burmeister, H. 1876. Die Xylocopa-Arten des La Plata-Gebietes. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 37:152-183. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); Schrottky, 1902Schrottky, C. 1902. Hyménoptères nouveaux de l'Amérique méridionale. . An. Mus. Buenos Aires 7:309-316. (distribution); Alfken, 1933Alfken, J.D. 1933. Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Sammelreise nach Brasilien, inbesondere in das Amazonasgebeit, ausgeführt von Dr. H. Zerny. IX Teil. Hymenoptera: Apidae. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 45:303-307. (distribution); Alfken, 1935-1936Alfken, J.D. 1935-1936. Ueber eine Bienenausbeute aus Venezuela. Veröffentlichungen aus dem Übersee-Museum Bremen 1:316-320. (distribution); Michener, 1954Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176. (distribution); Maes, 1993Maes, J.-M. 1993. Catalogo de los Apoidea (Hymenoptera) de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 26:11-30. (distribution); Ospina, 2000Ospina, M. 2000. Abejas carpinteras (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae: Xylocopini) de la región Neotropical. Biota Colombiana 1 (3):239-252. (distribution); Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376. (distribution); Starr & Hook, 2003Starr, C.K. & Hook, A.W. 2003. The aculeate Hymenoptera of Trinidad, West Indies. Occasional Papers o the Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies 12:1-31. (distribution); Smith-Pardo, 2003Smith-Pardo, A.H. 2003. A preliminary account of the bees of Colombia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea): present knowledge and future directions. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 76 (2):335-341. (distribution); Gonzalez & Engel, 2004Gonzalez, V.H. & M.S. Engel 2004. The tropical Andean bee fauna (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apoidea), with examples from Colombia. entomologische Abhandlungen 62 (1):65-75. (distribution); Gonzalez, 2006Gonzalez, V.H. 2006. Dos especies nuevas de abejas de la ciudad de Bogotá (Colombia). Revista Colombiana de Entomología 32 (1):93-96. (distribution); Gonzalez et al., 2009Gonzalez, V.H., M.M. Gonzalez & Y. Cuellar 2009. Notas biológicas y taxonómicas sobre los abejorros del maracuyá del género Xylocopa (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Xylocopini) en Colombia. Acta biol. Colomb. 14 (2):31-40. (distribution); Imperatriz-Fonseca et al., 2011Imperatriz-Fonseca, V.L., I. Alves-dos-Santos, P. Souza Santos-Filho, W. Engels, M. Ramalho, W. Wilms, J.B Vicentin Aguilar, C.A. Pinheiro-Machado, D. Araújo Alves & A. Matos Peixoto Kleinert 2011. Checklist of bees and honey plants from São Paulo State, Brazil. Biota Neotropica 11 (1a):631-655. (distribution); Moreno et al., 2017Moreno Jiménez, M. S. Sánchez Soto, E. García López, J. Romero Nápoles, J.L. Knowlton, C. Phifer, D. Flaspohler & A. de J. Jiménez Méndez 2017. Diversidad y abundancia de abejas (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) en agroecosistemas de palma aceitera y pastos cultivados, en Tabasco, México. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 115:3-20. (distribution); Sagot et al., 2018Sagot, P, J. Mérida, R. Ayala & R. Vandame 2018. Situación actual del conocimiento de la fauna de abejas (Apoidea: Anthophila) del estado de Chiapas, México. In: (Ed.). Memorias X Congreso Mesoamericano sobre Abejas Nativas. 191-2011. (distribution). - As Xylocopa frontalis frontalis: - Cockerell, 1926Cockerell, T.D.A. 1926. Descriptions and records of bees. - CXI. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 9: v. 17 (102):657-665. (distribution).
Apis morio Fabricius, 1793:315,Brasilia (Mus. Dom. Banks). - As Xylocopa frontalis morio: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); Schrottky, 1902Schrottky, C. 1902. Hyménoptères nouveaux de l'Amérique méridionale. . An. Mus. Buenos Aires 7:309-316. (distribution); Friese, 1909Friese, H. 1909. Beitrag zur Bienenfauna der Kleinen Antillen und der Bermudas. Zoologische Jahrbücher Suppl. 11 (Erstes Heft):34-40. (distribution); Cockerell, 1912Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. New bees from Brazil. Psyche 19 (2):41-61. (distribution). - As Xylocopa morio: - Cresson, 1865Cresson, E.T. 1865. On the Hymenoptera of Cuba. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 4:200 pp. (distribution); Smith, 1874Smith, F. 1874. Monograph of the genus Xylocopa, Latr. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London :247-302. (distribution), 284 ( listed as synonym of Xylocopa frontalis (Olivier, 1789)); Cresson, 1879Cresson, E.T. 1879. Catalogue of North American Apidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 7:215-232. (distribution); Dewitz, 1881Dewitz, H. 1881. Hymenopteren von Portorico. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 25:197-208. (distribution); Gundlach, 1887Gundlach, J. 1887. Apuntes para la fauna Puerto-Riqueña. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 16 (1):115-199. (distribution); Fox, 1891Fox, W.J. 1891. On a collection of Hymenoptera made in Jamaica during April, 1891. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 18:337-348. (distribution); Cockerell, 1899Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Catálogo de las Abejas de Mexico. Biblioteca Agricola de las Secretaria de Fomento, Mexico, 1-20. (distribution); Ashmead, 1900Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Report upon the aculeate Hymenoptera of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London pt. II:207-367. (distribution); Rohwer & Holland, 1917Rohwer, S.A. & W.J. Holland 1917. List of the Hymenoptera collected on the Isle of Pines by G. A. Link, Sr., 1912-1913, and contained in the Carnegie Museum. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 11:291-296. (distribution).
Xylocopa nitens Lepeletier, 1841:176, ♀. ♀, Cayenne (Musée de M. Serville). - Smith, 1854Smith, F. 1854. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. London. 465 pp, 8 pl. (distribution); Smith, 1874Smith, F. 1874. Monograph of the genus Xylocopa, Latr. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London :247-302.:285 ( listed as synonym of Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)). - As Xylocopa frontalis nitens: - Cockerell, 1926Cockerell, T.D.A. 1926. Descriptions and records of bees. - CXI. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 9: v. 17 (102):657-665. (distribution).
Xylocopa fasciata Lepeletier, 1841:202, ♂. ♂, Brésil (Musée de France). - Lepeletier, 1841Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, A. 1841. Histoire Naturelles des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Vol. 2. Paris. (distribution); Smith, 1874Smith, F. 1874. Monograph of the genus Xylocopa, Latr. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London :247-302.:284 ( listed as synonym of Xylocopa frontalis (Olivier, 1789)).

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Area distribution map

map of Xylocopa frontalis (Olivier, 1789)

Distribution

ARGArgentina
 (Schrottky, 1902 [as Xylocopa frontalis morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Schrottky, 1902; Ospina, 2000)
BLZBelize
 (Ospina, 2000)
BOLBolivia
 (Ospina, 2000)
BRABrazil
 (Fabricius, 1793 [as Apis morio Fabricius, 1793]; Lepeletier, 1841 [as Xylocopa fasciata Lepeletier, 1841]; Smith, 1854; Smith, 1874; Burmeister, 1876; Dalla Torre, 1896 [as Xylocopa frontalis morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Dalla Torre, 1896; Cockerell, 1912 [as Xylocopa frontalis morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Alfken, 1933; Ospina, 2000; Imperatriz-Fonseca et al., 2011)
COLColombia
 (Ospina, 2000; Smith-Pardo, 2003; Gonzalez & Engel, 2004; Gonzalez, 2006; Gonzalez et al., 2009)
CRICosta Rica
 (Ospina, 2000)
CUBCuba
 (Cresson, 1865 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Gundlach, 1887 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Ashmead, 1900 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Rohwer & Holland, 1917 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)])
ECUEcuador
 (Ospina, 2000; Gonzalez & Engel, 2004)
GRDGrenada
 (Ashmead, 1900 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Friese, 1909 [as Xylocopa frontalis morio (Fabricius, 1793)])
GTMGuatemala
 (Ospina, 2000)
GUFFrench Guiana
 (Olivier, 1789; Lepeletier, 1841; Lepeletier, 1841 [as Xylocopa nitens Lepeletier, 1841]; Smith, 1854; Smith, 1854 [as Xylocopa nitens Lepeletier, 1841]; Smith, 1874; Dalla Torre, 1896; Cockerell, 1926; Cockerell, 1926 [as Xylocopa frontalis nitens (Lepeletier, 1841)])
GUYGuyana
 (Smith, 1874 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Ospina, 2000)
HNDHonduras
 (Ospina, 2000)
JAMJamaica
 (Fox, 1891 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Ashmead, 1900 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)])
MEXMexico
 (Smith, 1874 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Cresson, 1879 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Cockerell, 1899 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Ospina, 2000)
MEX-ChsMexico - Chiapas
 (Sagot et al., 2018)
MEX-TabMexico - Tabasco
 (Moreno et al., 2017)
MEX-TamMexico - Tamaulipas
 (Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002)
NICNicaragua
 (Smith, 1874 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Cresson, 1879 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Gundlach, 1887 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Maes, 1993; Ospina, 2000)
PANPanama
 (Michener, 1954; Ospina, 2000)
PERPeru
 (Ospina, 2000; Gonzalez & Engel, 2004)
PRIPuerto Rico
 (Dewitz, 1881 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Gundlach, 1887 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Ashmead, 1900 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)])
PRYParaguay
 (Cockerell, 1926; Ospina, 2000)
SLVEl Salvador
 (Ospina, 2000)
TTOTrinidad and Tobago
 (Friese, 1909 [as Xylocopa frontalis morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Starr & Hook, 2003)
URYUruguay
 (Ospina, 2000)
VCTSaint Vincent and the Grenadines
 (Ashmead, 1900 [as Xylocopa morio (Fabricius, 1793)]; Friese, 1909 [as Xylocopa frontalis morio (Fabricius, 1793)])
VENVenezuela
 (Smith, 1874; Dalla Torre, 1896; Alfken, 1935-1936; Ospina, 2000)

Literature

  • Alfken, J.D. 1933. Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Sammelreise nach Brasilien, inbesondere in das Amazonasgebeit, ausgeführt von Dr. H. Zerny. IX Teil. Hymenoptera: Apidae. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 45:303-307.
  • Alfken, J.D. 1935-1936. Ueber eine Bienenausbeute aus Venezuela. Veröffentlichungen aus dem Übersee-Museum Bremen 1:316-320.
  • Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Report upon the aculeate Hymenoptera of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London pt. II:207-367.
  • Burmeister, H. 1876. Die Xylocopa-Arten des La Plata-Gebietes. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 37:152-183.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Catálogo de las Abejas de Mexico. Biblioteca Agricola de las Secretaria de Fomento, Mexico, 1-20.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. New bees from Brazil. Psyche 19 (2):41-61.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1926. Descriptions and records of bees. - CXI. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 9: v. 17 (102):657-665.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1865. On the Hymenoptera of Cuba. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 4:200 pp.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1879. Catalogue of North American Apidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 7:215-232.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643.
  • Dewitz, H. 1881. Hymenopteren von Portorico. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 25:197-208.
  • Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Vol. 2. Christian Gottlieb Proft, Hafniae. viii + 519 pp.
  • Fox, W.J. 1891. On a collection of Hymenoptera made in Jamaica during April, 1891. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 18:337-348.
  • Friese, H. 1909. Beitrag zur Bienenfauna der Kleinen Antillen und der Bermudas. Zoologische Jahrbücher Suppl. 11 (Erstes Heft):34-40.
  • Gonzalez, V.H. 2006. Dos especies nuevas de abejas de la ciudad de Bogotá (Colombia). Revista Colombiana de Entomología 32 (1):93-96.
  • Gonzalez, V.H. & M.S. Engel 2004. The tropical Andean bee fauna (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apoidea), with examples from Colombia. entomologische Abhandlungen 62 (1):65-75.
  • Gonzalez, V.H., M.M. Gonzalez & Y. Cuellar 2009. Notas biológicas y taxonómicas sobre los abejorros del maracuyá del género Xylocopa (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Xylocopini) en Colombia. Acta biol. Colomb. 14 (2):31-40.
  • Gundlach, J. 1887. Apuntes para la fauna Puerto-Riqueña. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 16 (1):115-199.
  • Imperatriz-Fonseca, V.L., I. Alves-dos-Santos, P. Souza Santos-Filho, W. Engels, M. Ramalho, W. Wilms, J.B Vicentin Aguilar, C.A. Pinheiro-Machado, D. Araújo Alves & A. Matos Peixoto Kleinert 2011. Checklist of bees and honey plants from São Paulo State, Brazil. Biota Neotropica 11 (1a):631-655.
  • Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, A. 1841. Histoire Naturelles des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Vol. 2. Paris.
  • Maes, J.-M. 1993. Catalogo de los Apoidea (Hymenoptera) de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 26:11-30.
  • Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176.
  • Moreno Jiménez, M. S. Sánchez Soto, E. García López, J. Romero Nápoles, J.L. Knowlton, C. Phifer, D. Flaspohler & A. de J. Jiménez Méndez 2017. Diversidad y abundancia de abejas (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) en agroecosistemas de palma aceitera y pastos cultivados, en Tabasco, México. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 115:3-20.
  • Olivier 1789. Encyclopedic Methodique, Dictionnaire des Insectes., Vol. 4. Paris and Liege, 1-331.
  • Ospina, M. 2000. Abejas carpinteras (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae: Xylocopini) de la región Neotropical. Biota Colombiana 1 (3):239-252.
  • Rohwer, S.A. & W.J. Holland 1917. List of the Hymenoptera collected on the Isle of Pines by G. A. Link, Sr., 1912-1913, and contained in the Carnegie Museum. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 11:291-296.
  • Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376.
  • Sagot, P, J. Mérida, R. Ayala & R. Vandame 2018. Situación actual del conocimiento de la fauna de abejas (Apoidea: Anthophila) del estado de Chiapas, México. In: (Ed.). Memorias X Congreso Mesoamericano sobre Abejas Nativas. 191-2011.
  • Schrottky, C. 1902. Hyménoptères nouveaux de l'Amérique méridionale. . An. Mus. Buenos Aires 7:309-316.
  • Smith, F. 1854. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. London. 465 pp, 8 pl.
  • Smith, F. 1874. Monograph of the genus Xylocopa, Latr. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London :247-302.
  • Smith-Pardo, A.H. 2003. A preliminary account of the bees of Colombia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea): present knowledge and future directions. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 76 (2):335-341.
  • Starr, C.K. & Hook, A.W. 2003. The aculeate Hymenoptera of Trinidad, West Indies. Occasional Papers o the Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies 12:1-31.