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Lestrimelitta limao (Smith, 1863)

Trigona limao Smith, 1863:506, Schwarz, 1948Schwarz, H.F. 1948. Stingless bees (Meliponinae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 90:i-xviii, 1-546.:188, Type ♂ = xw (British Museum (Natural History)); Marchi & Melo, 2006Marchi, P. & G.A.R. Melo 2006. Revisão taxonômica das espécies brazileiras de abelhas do gênero Lestrimelitta Friese (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponina). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 50 (1):6-30.:12, Lectotype (BMNH). - Silvestri, 1902Silvestri, F. 1902. Contribuzione alla conoscenza dei Meliponidi del bacino del Rio de la Plata. Rivista di Patologia Vegetale 10:121-174. (distribution); Schwarz, 1938Schwarz, H.F. 1938. The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of British Guiana and some related forms. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 74 (7):437-508. (distribution). - As Lestrimelitta limao: - Schwarz, 1934Schwarz, H.F. 1934. The social bees (Meliponinae) of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. American Museum Novitates 731:1-23. (distribution); Schwarz, 1948Schwarz, H.F. 1948. Stingless bees (Meliponinae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 90:i-xviii, 1-546. (distribution); Michener, 1954Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176. (distribution); Nates-Parra, 1983Nates-Parra, G. 1983. Abejas de Colombia: I. Lista preliminar de algunas especies de abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae). Revista de Biología Tropical 31 (1):155-158. (distribution); Ayala, 1988Ayala, R. 1988. Abejas silvestres (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) de Chamela, Jalisco, México. Folia Entomológica Mexicana 77:395-493. (distribution); Maes, 1993Maes, J.-M. 1993. Catalogo de los Apoidea (Hymenoptera) de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 26:11-30. (distribution); Nates-Parra, 2001Nates-Parra, G. 2001. Las abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 2 (3):233-248. (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); Marchi & Melo, 2006Marchi, P. & G.A.R. Melo 2006. Revisão taxonômica das espécies brazileiras de abelhas do gênero Lestrimelitta Friese (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponina). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 50 (1):6-30. (distribution); Nates-Parra et al., 2006Nates-Parra, G., Á. Rodríguez-C. & E.D. Vélez 2006. Abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) en cementerios de la Cordillera Oriental de Colombia. Acta biol. Colomb. 11 (1):25-35. (distribution); Gonzalez & Griswold, 2012Gonzalez, V.H. & Griswold, T.L. 2012. New species and previously unknown males of neotropical cleptobiotic stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Lestrimelitta). Zoologica (New York) 34 (1):227-245. (distribution); Oliveira Lima & Silvestre, 2017Oliveira Lima, F.V. de & R. Silvestre 2017. Abelhas (Hymenoptera, Apidae sensu lato) do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. Iheringia Série Zoologia 107 (supl.):1-14. (distribution); Nogueira, 2023Nogueira, D.S. 2023. Overview of stingless bees in Brazil (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). EntomoBrasilis 16 (e1041):1-13. (distribution). - As Melipona limao: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution), 580 (comb. nov.).
Lestrimelitta limao rufipes Friese, 1903:361, ♂♀.Bahuru (Sao Paulo) (leg. Dr. Il. v. Ihering), Lectotype, examined (AMNH), designated by Marchi & Melo, 2006Marchi, P. & G.A.R. Melo 2006. Revisão taxonômica das espécies brazileiras de abelhas do gênero Lestrimelitta Friese (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponina). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 50 (1):6-30.:16. - As Lestrimelitta rufipes: - Marchi & Melo, 2006Marchi, P. & G.A.R. Melo 2006. Revisão taxonômica das espécies brazileiras de abelhas do gênero Lestrimelitta Friese (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponina). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 50 (1):6-30. (distribution); Gonzalez & Griswold, 2012Gonzalez, V.H. & Griswold, T.L. 2012. New species and previously unknown males of neotropical cleptobiotic stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Lestrimelitta). Zoologica (New York) 34 (1):227-245. (distribution); Nogueira, 2023Nogueira, D.S. 2023. Overview of stingless bees in Brazil (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). EntomoBrasilis 16 (e1041):1-13. (distribution). - As Trigona limao rufipes: - Schwarz, 1938Schwarz, H.F. 1938. The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of British Guiana and some related forms. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 74 (7):437-508.:451 ( listed as synonym of Trigona limao Smith, 1863).
Lestrimelitta limao rufa Friese, 1903:361, ♀.Rio Acre (an der Grenze von Bolivia) (leg. A. Ducke), Lectotype, examined (AMNH), designated by Marchi & Melo, 2006Marchi, P. & G.A.R. Melo 2006. Revisão taxonômica das espécies brazileiras de abelhas do gênero Lestrimelitta Friese (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponina). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 50 (1):6-30.:15. - As Lestrimelitta rufa: - Marchi & Melo, 2006Marchi, P. & G.A.R. Melo 2006. Revisão taxonômica das espécies brazileiras de abelhas do gênero Lestrimelitta Friese (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponina). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 50 (1):6-30. (distribution); Gonzalez & Griswold, 2012Gonzalez, V.H. & Griswold, T.L. 2012. New species and previously unknown males of neotropical cleptobiotic stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Lestrimelitta). Zoologica (New York) 34 (1):227-245. (distribution); Nogueira, 2023Nogueira, D.S. 2023. Overview of stingless bees in Brazil (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). EntomoBrasilis 16 (e1041):1-13. (distribution). - As Trigona limao rufa: - Schwarz, 1938Schwarz, H.F. 1938. The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of British Guiana and some related forms. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 74 (7):437-508.:451 ( listed as synonym of Trigona limao Smith, 1863).

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Area distribution map

map of Lestrimelitta limao (Smith, 1863)

Distribution

ARGArgentina
 (Schwarz, 1938)
BOLBolivia
 (Gonzalez & Griswold, 2012 [as Lestrimelitta rufa (Friese, 1903)]; Gonzalez & Griswold, 2012)
BRABrazil
 (Dalla Torre, 1896; Silvestri, 1902; Friese, 1903 [as Lestrimelitta limao rufipes Friese, 1903]; Friese, 1903 [as Lestrimelitta limao rufa Friese, 1903]; Schwarz, 1938; Schwarz, 1948; Schwarz, 1948; Maes, 1993; Marchi & Melo, 2006; Marchi & Melo, 2006 [as Trigona limao rufa (Friese, 1903)]; Marchi & Melo, 2006 [as Trigona limao rufipes Friese, 1903]; Marchi & Melo, 2006 [as Lestrimelitta rufa (Friese, 1903)]; Marchi & Melo, 2006; Marchi & Melo, 2006 [as Lestrimelitta rufipes (Friese, 1903)]; Gonzalez & Griswold, 2012 [as Lestrimelitta rufa (Friese, 1903)]; Gonzalez & Griswold, 2012; Gonzalez & Griswold, 2012 [as Lestrimelitta rufipes (Friese, 1903)]; Oliveira Lima & Silvestre, 2017; Nogueira, 2023 [as Lestrimelitta rufa (Friese, 1903)]; Nogueira, 2023; Nogueira, 2023 [as Lestrimelitta rufipes (Friese, 1903)])
COLColombia
 (Schwarz, 1948; Nates-Parra, 1983; Maes, 1993; Nates-Parra, 2001; Nates-Parra et al., 2006)
CRICosta Rica
 (Schwarz, 1948; Maes, 1993)
ECUEcuador
 (Schwarz, 1948; Marchi & Melo, 2006 [as Lestrimelitta rufa (Friese, 1903)]; Gonzalez & Griswold, 2012; Gonzalez & Griswold, 2012 [as Lestrimelitta rufa (Friese, 1903)])
GTMGuatemala
 (Schwarz, 1948)
GUYGuyana
 (Schwarz, 1938; Schwarz, 1948)
MEXMexico
 (Schwarz, 1938; Maes, 1993)
MEX-JalMexico - Jalisco
 (Ayala, 1988)
MEX-YucMexico - Yucatán
 (Schwarz, 1948)
NICNicaragua
 (Maes, 1993)
PANPanama
 (Schwarz, 1934; Schwarz, 1948; Michener, 1954)
PERPeru
 (Schwarz, 1948; Gonzalez & Griswold, 2012; Gonzalez & Griswold, 2012 [as Lestrimelitta rufipes (Friese, 1903)])
PRYParaguay
 (Schwarz, 1938)
TTOTrinidad and Tobago
 (Schwarz, 1938; Schwarz, 1948; Starr & Hook, 2003)
VENVenezuela
 (Schwarz, 1948)

Literature

  • Ayala, R. 1988. Abejas silvestres (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) de Chamela, Jalisco, México. Folia Entomológica Mexicana 77:395-493.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643.
  • Friese, H. 1903. Neue Meliponiden II. Zeitschrift für systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 3:359-361.
  • Gonzalez, V.H. & Griswold, T.L. 2012. New species and previously unknown males of neotropical cleptobiotic stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Lestrimelitta). Zoologica (New York) 34 (1):227-245.
  • Maes, J.-M. 1993. Catalogo de los Apoidea (Hymenoptera) de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 26:11-30.
  • Marchi, P. & G.A.R. Melo 2006. Revisão taxonômica das espécies brazileiras de abelhas do gênero Lestrimelitta Friese (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponina). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 50 (1):6-30.
  • Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176.
  • Nates-Parra, G. 1983. Abejas de Colombia: I. Lista preliminar de algunas especies de abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae). Revista de Biología Tropical 31 (1):155-158.
  • Nates-Parra, G. 2001. Las abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 2 (3):233-248.
  • Nates-Parra, G., Á. Rodríguez-C. & E.D. Vélez 2006. Abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) en cementerios de la Cordillera Oriental de Colombia. Acta biol. Colomb. 11 (1):25-35.
  • Nogueira, D.S. 2023. Overview of stingless bees in Brazil (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). EntomoBrasilis 16 (e1041):1-13.
  • Oliveira Lima, F.V. de & R. Silvestre 2017. Abelhas (Hymenoptera, Apidae sensu lato) do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. Iheringia Série Zoologia 107 (supl.):1-14.
  • Schwarz, H.F. 1934. The social bees (Meliponinae) of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. American Museum Novitates 731:1-23.
  • Schwarz, H.F. 1938. The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of British Guiana and some related forms. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 74 (7):437-508.
  • Schwarz, H.F. 1948. Stingless bees (Meliponinae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 90:i-xviii, 1-546.
  • Silvestri, F. 1902. Contribuzione alla conoscenza dei Meliponidi del bacino del Rio de la Plata. Rivista di Patologia Vegetale 10:121-174.
  • 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.