''Tetragonula'' is a genus of
stingless bees. In 1961, Brazilian bee expert
J.S. Moure first proposed the genus name ''Tetragonula''
to improve the classification system by dividing the large genus ''Trigona'' stingless bees into 9 smaller groups. About 30
stingless bee
Stingless bees, sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees (about 550 described species), comprising the tribe Meliponini (or subtribe Meliponina according to other authors). They belong in the family A ...
species formerly placed 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 formerly including many more subgenera than the present assemblage; many of these former subgenera have been el ...
'' are now placed in the genus ''Tetragonula''. These bees are found in Oceania, in countries such as
Australia
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,
Indonesia
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,
New Guinea
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,
Malaysia
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,
Thailand
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, the
Philippines
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,
India
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,
Sri Lanka
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, and the
Solomon Islands
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. The most recent tabulation of species listed 31 species.
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Species
*'' Tetragonula bengalensis'' ( Cameron, 1897)
*'' Tetragonula biroi'' (Friese
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, 1898)
*''Tetragonula carbonaria
''Tetragonula carbonaria'' (previously known as ''Trigona carbonaria'') is a stingless bee, endemic to the north-east coast of Australia. Its common name is sugarbag bee. They are also occasionally referred to as bush bees. The bee is known to po ...
'' (Smith
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, 1854)
*'' Tetragonula clypearis'' (Friese, 1908)
*'' Tetragonula dapitanensis'' ( Cockerell, 1925)
*'' Tetragonula davenporti'' (Franck, 2004)Tetragonula iridipennis
The Indian stingless bee or dammar bee, ''Tetragonula iridipennis'', is a species of bee belonging to the family Apidae, subfamily Apinae. It was first described by Frederick Smith in 1854 who found the species in what is now the island of Sri ...
'' (Smith, 1854)
*'' Tetragonula laeviceps'' (Smith, 1857)
*'' Tetragonula malaipanae'' (Engel, Michener, & Boontop, 2017)
References
External links
Aussie Bee
''Tetragonula carbonaria''
''Tetragonula clypearis''
''Tetragonula hockingsi''
''Tetragonula sapiens''
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Meliponini