Title
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
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Tetragonula
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Tetragonula malaipanae
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Thailand
Call Number
QL1 .A436 no.3886 2017
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1206/3886.1
OCLC:
1014021804
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