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Scaptotrigona pectoralis (Dalla Torre, 1896)

Trigona thoracica Cresson, 1878:181, xw. 2 xww, Mexico (American Entomology Society, leg. Sumichrast). Nomen nudum. - 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); Cockerell, 1899Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Catálogo de las Abejas de Mexico. Biblioteca Agricola de las Secretaria de Fomento, Mexico, 1-20.:20 ( listed as synonym of Trigona pectoralis (Dalla Torre, 1896)); Schwarz, 1934Schwarz, H.F. 1934. The social bees (Meliponinae) of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. American Museum Novitates 731:1-23.:19 ( listed as synonym of Trigona pectoralis (Dalla Torre, 1896)).
Melipona pectoralis Dalla Torre, 1896:582, no descr.. Ayala, 1999Ayala, R. 1999. Revisión de las abejas sin aguin de México (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Folia Entomológica Mexicana 106:1-123.:91, Type (BMNH). Replacement name for Trigona thoracica Cresson, 1878 by Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643.:582 (nec Smith). - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution), 582 (comb. nov.). - As Scaptotrigona pectoralis: - Ayala, 1999Ayala, R. 1999. Revisión de las abejas sin aguin de México (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Folia Entomológica Mexicana 106:1-123. (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); Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004Yáñez-Ordóñez, O. & I. Hinojosa-Díaz 2004. La colección himenopterológica (Insecta) del Museo de Zoología Alfonso L. Herrera de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) 20 (1):167-197. (distribution); Smith-Pardo & Gonzalez, 2007Smith-Pardo, A.H. & V.H. Gonzalez 2007. Diversidad de abejas (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) en estados sucesionales del bosque húmedo tropical. Acta biol. Colomb. 12 (1):43-56. (distribution); Jarau & Barth, 2008Jarau, S. F.G. Barth 2008. Stingless bees of the Golfo Dulce region, Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae, Meliponini). Stapfia 88:267-276. (distribution); Ngo et al., 2013Ngo, H.T., J. Gibbs, T. Griswold & L. Packer 2013. Evaluating bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) diversity using Malaise traps in coffee landscapes of Costa Rica. The Canadian Entomologist 145:435-453. (distribution); Ayala et al., 2014Ayala, R., V.H. Gonzalez & M.S. Engel 2014. Mexican stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae): Diversity, distribution, and indigenous knowledge. In: Vit, P., S. Pedro, D. Roubik (Ed.). Pot-Honey. . (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); Arnold et al., 2018Arnold, N., R. Ayala, J. Mérida, P. Sagot, M. Aldasoro & R. Vandame 2018. Registros nuevos de abejas sin aguijón (Apidae: Meliponini) para los estados de Chiapas y Oaxaca, México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 89:651-665. (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); Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022Nava-Bolaños, A. & L. Osorio-Olvera 2022. Estado del arte del conocimiento de biodiversidad de los polinizadores de México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 93:1-77. (distribution). - As Trigona pectoralis: - Cockerell, 1899Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Catálogo de las Abejas de Mexico. Biblioteca Agricola de las Secretaria de Fomento, Mexico, 1-20. (distribution); Cockerell, 1913Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Meliponine bees from Central America. Psyche 20:10-14. (distribution); Friese, 1916Friese, H. 1916. Zur Bienenfauna von Costa Rica. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 77:287-348. (distribution); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641. (distribution); Cockerell, 1922Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Bees in the collection of the United States National Museum. 4. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2413):1-20. (distribution); Schwarz, 1934Schwarz, H.F. 1934. The social bees (Meliponinae) of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. American Museum Novitates 731:1-23. (distribution). - As Trigona pectoralis pectoralis: - Michener, 1954Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176. (distribution). - As Trigona postica pectoralis: - Cockerell, 1932Cockerell, T.D.A. 1932. Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) collected at Chichen Itzá, Yucatan, by the Harvard expeditions of 1929-1930. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 27:9-17. (distribution).

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Area distribution map

map of Scaptotrigona pectoralis (Dalla Torre, 1896)

Distribution

COLColombia
 (Smith-Pardo, 2003; Smith-Pardo & Gonzalez, 2007)
CRICosta Rica
 (Jarau & Barth, 2008; Ngo et al., 2013)
GTMGuatemala
 (Cockerell, 1913; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920)
MEXMexico
 (Cresson, 1878 [as Trigona thoracica Cresson, 1878]; Cresson, 1879 [as Trigona thoracica Cresson, 1878]; Dalla Torre, 1896; Cockerell, 1899; Friese, 1916; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920; Ayala, 1999; Jarau & Barth, 2008; Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022)
MEX-CamMexico - Campeche
 (Ayala et al., 2014; Arnold et al., 2018)
MEX-ChsMexico - Chiapas
 (Ayala, 1999; Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004; Ayala et al., 2014; Arnold et al., 2018; Sagot et al., 2018)
MEX-DiFMexico - Distrito Federal (Mexico City)
 (Ayala, 1999)
MEX-HidMexico - Hidalgo
 (Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004)
MEX-OaxMexico - Oaxaca
 (Ayala, 1999; Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004; Ayala et al., 2014; Arnold et al., 2018)
MEX-QuRMexico - Quintana Roo
 (Ayala, 1999; Ayala et al., 2014; Arnold et al., 2018)
MEX-TabMexico - Tabasco
 (Moreno et al., 2017)
MEX-VdIMexico - Veracruz
 (Ayala, 1999; Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004; Ayala et al., 2014; Arnold et al., 2018)
MEX-YucMexico - Yucatán
 (Cockerell, 1932; Ayala, 1999; Ayala et al., 2014; Arnold et al., 2018)
NICNicaragua
 (Lutz & Cockerell, 1920)
PANPanama
 (Schwarz, 1934; Michener, 1954; Jarau & Barth, 2008)
SLVEl Salvador
 (Cockerell, 1922)

Literature

  • Arnold, N., R. Ayala, J. Mérida, P. Sagot, M. Aldasoro & R. Vandame 2018. Registros nuevos de abejas sin aguijón (Apidae: Meliponini) para los estados de Chiapas y Oaxaca, México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 89:651-665.
  • Ayala, R. 1999. Revisión de las abejas sin aguin de México (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Folia Entomológica Mexicana 106:1-123.
  • Ayala, R., V.H. Gonzalez & M.S. Engel 2014. Mexican stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae): Diversity, distribution, and indigenous knowledge. In: Vit, P., S. Pedro, D. Roubik (Ed.). Pot-Honey. .
  • 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. 1913. Meliponine bees from Central America. Psyche 20:10-14.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Bees in the collection of the United States National Museum. 4. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2413):1-20.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1932. Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) collected at Chichen Itzá, Yucatan, by the Harvard expeditions of 1929-1930. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 27:9-17.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1878. Descriptions of new species of North American bees. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 30:181-221.
  • 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.
  • Friese, H. 1916. Zur Bienenfauna von Costa Rica. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 77:287-348.
  • Jarau, S. F.G. Barth 2008. Stingless bees of the Golfo Dulce region, Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae, Meliponini). Stapfia 88:267-276.
  • Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641.
  • 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.
  • Nava-Bolaños, A. & L. Osorio-Olvera 2022. Estado del arte del conocimiento de biodiversidad de los polinizadores de México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 93:1-77.
  • Ngo, H.T., J. Gibbs, T. Griswold & L. Packer 2013. Evaluating bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) diversity using Malaise traps in coffee landscapes of Costa Rica. The Canadian Entomologist 145:435-453.
  • 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.
  • Schwarz, H.F. 1934. The social bees (Meliponinae) of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. American Museum Novitates 731:1-23.
  • 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.
  • Smith-Pardo, A.H. & V.H. Gonzalez 2007. Diversidad de abejas (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) en estados sucesionales del bosque húmedo tropical. Acta biol. Colomb. 12 (1):43-56.
  • Yáñez-Ordóñez, O. & I. Hinojosa-Díaz 2004. La colección himenopterológica (Insecta) del Museo de Zoología Alfonso L. Herrera de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) 20 (1):167-197.