Notes on Southeast Asian stingless bees of the genus Tetragonula (Hymenoptera, Apidae), with the description of a new species from Thailand

Title Variants

Alternative: New Thai Tetragonula

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, number 3886

By

Engel, Michael S. , author

Boontop, Yuvarin. , author
Michener, Charles D. (Charles Duncan), 1918-2015 , author

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY American Museum of Natural History [2017]

Notes

Caption title.

"December 6, 2017."

A new species of stingless bee (Apinae: Meliponini) is described from workers and two males recovered from nests in tree trunks in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand. Tetragonula (Tetragonula) malaipanae, new species, resembles T. (T.) laeviceps (Smith), T. (T.) pagdeni (Schwarz), T. (T.) testaceitarsis (Cameron), and similar species, but is particularly similar to T. (T.) drescheri (Schwarz). Unlike T. drescheri, the new species lacks a defined black stripe on the underside of the metafemur, has the metatibia reddish brown to testaceous (rather than uniformly chestnut brown, and black with a yellow mark on the inner surface in T. drescheri). Characters of the uncommonly encountered T. (T.) sarawakensis (Schwarz) are also recorded.

Subjects

Bees , Classification , Insects , Kanchanaburi (Province) , Southeast Asia , stingless bees , Tetragonula , Tetragonula malaipanae , Thailand

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3886 2017

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1206/3886.1
OCLC: 1014021804