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Stingless Bee
Stingless bees (SB), sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees (from about 462 to 552 described species), comprising the Tribe (biology), tribe Meliponini (or subtribe Meliponina according to other authors). They belong in the Family (biology), family Apidae (subfamily Apinae), and are closely related to common honey bees (HB, tribe Apini), orchid bees (tribe Euglossini), and bumblebees (tribe Bombini). These four bee tribes belong to the Pollen basket, corbiculate bees Monophyly, monophyletic group. Meliponines have stingers, but they are highly reduced and cannot be used for defense, though these bees exhibit other defensive behaviors and mechanisms. Meliponines are not the only type of bee incapable of stinging: all male bees and many female bees of several other families, such as Andrenidae and Megachilidae (tribe Dioxyini), also cannot sting. Some stingless bees have powerful mandibles and can inflict painful bites. Some species ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amédée Louis Michel Le Peletier, Comte De Saint-Fargeau
Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (9 October 1770 – 23 August 1845), also spelled Lepeletier or Lepelletier, was a French people, French Entomology, entomologist, and specialist in the Hymenoptera. In 1833, he served as president of the Société entomologique de France. Works *with Gaspard Auguste Brullé ''doi:10.5962/bhl.title.9005, Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptères''. Nicolas Roret, Roret, Paris 1836–46 p.m. *''Memoires sur le G. Gorytes Latr. Arpactus Jur''. Paris 1832. *''Monographia tenthredinetarum, synonimia extricata''. Levrault, Paris 1823–25. *''Mémoire sur quelques espéces nouvelles d'Insectes de la section des hyménoptères appelés les portetuyaux et sur les caractères de cette famille et des genres qui la composent''. Paris 1806. *''Défense de Félix Lepeletier''. Vatar, Paris 1796/97. *with Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville a treatise on Hemiptera to Guillaume-Antoine Olivier's Histoire naturelle. ''Entomologie, ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friesella
''Friesella'' is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae. The species of this genus are found in South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o .... Species: * ''Friesella schrottkyi'' (Friese, 1900) References Meliponini Bee genera {{apinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leurotrigona
''Leurotrigona'' is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae Apidae is the largest family within the superfamily Apoidea, containing at least 5700 species of bees. The family includes some of the most commonly seen bees, including bumblebees and honey bees, but also includes stingless bees (also used for .... The species of this genus are found in South America. Species: *'' Leurotrigona crispula'' *'' Leurotrigona gracilis'' *'' Leurotrigona muelleri'' *'' Leurotrigona pusilla'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q4042823 Meliponini Bee genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lestrimelitta
''Lestrimelitta'' is a genus of stingless bees found in the Neotropics, from Mexico to Brazil and Argentina, with about 20 known species. They are small, shining black species from 4 to 7 mm in length, with rounded heads and reduced pollen baskets. Unlike most eusocial bees, they do not gather their own pollen and nectar from flowers, thus are not pollinator A pollinator is an animal that moves pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female carpel, stigma of a flower. This helps to bring about fertilization of the ovules in the flower by the male gametes from the pollen grains. Insects are ...s, but instead they invade the colonies of other stingless bee species and rob their pollen and honey stores (a phenomenon called " cleptobiosis"). They do not initiate their own nests, but they will "evict" another stingless bee colony from its nest (usually in a tree cavity), and convert the pre-existing nest to house their own colony. Selected taxa *'' Lestrimelitta cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
