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Plebeia Alvarengai
''Plebeia'' is a genus of mostly small-bodied stingless bees, formerly included in the genus ''Trigona''. Most of the ~45 species are placed in the subgenus ''(Plebeia)'' (''s.s.''), but there also are four species in the subgenus ''(Scaura)''. They differ in only minor structural details, primarily of the hind leg, from other genera that were formerly treated as constituents of ''Trigona''. In some classifications, the genus ''Schwarziana ''Schwarziana'' is a relatively small genus of South American Meliponini, stingless bees. Like other stingless bees, ''Schwarziana'' are eusociality, eusocial, with large colonies primarily composed of workers and one queen. Unusually for stingle ...'' is treated as a subgenus within ''Plebeia'', but recent morphological analyses indicate that ''Schwarziana'' is a distinct lineage, while ''Plebeia'' is paraphyletic. Due to their small sizes, in Brazil many species are known as ''abelha-mirim'' (literally "small bee") in Portuguese. Range S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Ferlando Schwarz
Herbert Ferlando Schwarz (7 September 1883 – 2 October 1960) was an American entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera. He was appointed a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in 1921, a position he held until his death, and was the editor of '' Natural History'' magazine from 1921 to 1925. Schwarz described numerous stingless bee (Meliponini) genera such as Plebeia ''Plebeia'' is a genus of mostly small-bodied stingless bees, formerly included in the genus ''Trigona ''Trigona'' is one of the largest genera of stingless bees, comprising about 32 species, exclusively occurring in the New World, and forme ... and Partamona. Tributes The bee genera Schwarziana and Schwarzula are named after him. References External links American entomologists 1883 births 1960 deaths 20th-century American zoologists {{Entomologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |