Species info
Classification > Subfamily Apinae > Tribe Meliponini > Genus Cephalotrigona
Cephalotrigona capitata (Smith, 1854)
Worker in lateral view, Iguazú National Park, Misiones (MLP)
Worker in lateral view, Iguazú National Park, Misiones (MLP)
Worker in lateral view, Iguazú National Park, Misiones (MLP)
Head in frontal view, worker
Head in frontal view, worker
Detail of the worker's mandible
Detail of the worker's mandible
Nest entrance (F. Zamudio)
Nest entrance (F. Zamudio)
Nest entrance, San Antonio, Misiones (L. Alvarez)
Nest entrance, San Antonio, Misiones (L. Alvarez)
 
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Social bees that nest in preexisting cavities
  • Argentina
    • Misiones
Other distribution
Southeast of Brazil and Paraguay
 
Synonyms
  • Trigona capitata var. virgilii Friese, 1901
Observations
Common name: Mambuca, Mambucón, ei tapexua, eirusú (Brazil)
Links
References
  • BERTONI, A. W. 1911. Contribución á la biologia de las avispas y abejas del Paraguay (Hymenoptera). An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 22: 97-146:143.
  • ZAMUDIO, F. & ALVAREZ, L. J. 2016. Abejas sin Aguijón de Misiones. Una guía etnotaxonómica para su identificación en el campo. Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, 218 pp.
  • ZAMUDIO, F. & ALVAREZ, L. 2022. Guia etnotaxonômico ilustrado das Abelhas sim Ferrão da Tríplice Fronteira (Argentina, Paraguai, Brasil). EDUNILA, Foz do Iguaçu, Brasil. 167pp.
  • ENGEL, M. S., RASMUSSEN, C., AYALA, R., & OLIVEIRA, F. F. DE. 2023. Stingless bee classification and biology (Hymenoptera, Apidae): a review, with an updated key to genera and subgenera. ZooKeys 1172: 239-312
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