bees (from about 462 to 552 described species), comprising the tribe Meliponini (or subtribe Meliponina according to other authors). They belong in the...

25 to 40 million years old, while the Meliponini (and thus the clade that includes the Bombini and Meliponini) are 81 to 96 million years old, about...

while the drones are males. The eusocial stingless bees (Apidae, Apinae, Meliponini) comprise about 374 species. Two genera occur in Australia, with Tetragonula...

contained four tribes (Apinae: Apini, Euglossini and Bombinae: Bombini, Meliponini) which have been reclassified as tribes of the subfamily Apinae, along...

54 in). The smallest species may be dwarf stingless bees in the tribe Meliponini whose workers are less than 2 millimetres (0.08 in) in length. According...

in the Stingless Bee Schwarziana quadripunctata (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini): Differences between Colonies, Castes and Age" (PDF). Genetics and Molecular...

Variation in Schwarziana quadripunctata Queens (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini)" (PDF). Revista de Etologia. 3 (1): 59–65. Archived from the original...

Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Hymenoptera Family: Apidae Tribe: Meliponini Genus: Melipona Illiger, 1806 Species Some 40, see text...

with a Key to the Supraspecific Groups of Indomalayan and Australasian Meliponini". American Museum Novitates (3888): 1–33. doi:10.1206/3888.1. ISSN 0003-0082...

"Honeydew Collecting in Malagasy Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) and Observations on Competition with Invasive Ants" (PDF). African Entomology...

description of four species of Trigona (Jurine, 1807) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) from the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil" (PDF). Genetics and Molecular...

referred to as meliponiculture, which is named after bees of the tribe Meliponini such as Melipona quadrifasciata in Brazil. This variation of beekeeping...

L. (2009). "Pollen foraging in colonies of Melipona bicolor (Apidae, Meliponini): effects of season, colony size and queen number". Genetics and Molecular...

varying degrees of sociality: the highly eusocial Apini (honey bees) and Meliponini (stingless bees), primitively eusocial Bombini (bumble bees), and the...

their location to nest mates. This black stingless bees of the tribe Meliponini can be parasitic toward citrus trees but also helpful for crop pollination...

of at least two evolutionary lineages in Melipona subnitida (Apidae, Meliponini) suggested by mtDNA variability and geometric morphometrics of forewings"...

(Spathodea campanulata) on Melipona fasciculata and M. seminigra (Apidae, Meliponini). In Embrapa Amazônia Oriental-Resumo em anais de congresso (ALICE). In:...

family Apidae, subfamily Apinae. Along with other species in the tribe Meliponini, T. angustula is a eusocial stingless bee. There are approximately 550...

is a species of eusocial stingless bee in the family Apidae and tribe Meliponini. The Solanum stramoniifolium is a host plant for the Trigona pallens....

p. 346. Oliveira ML, Morato EF (2000). "Stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Meliponini) feeding on stinkhorn spores (Fungi, Phallales): robbery or dispersal...

is a species of eusocial stingless bee in the family Apidae and tribe Meliponini. Costa, Luciano (2019). Guia Fotográfico de Identificação de Abelhas Sem...

Apidae and the order Hymenoptera. M. quadrifasciata is in the subfamily Meliponini which is commonly referred to as "stingless bees". The genus Melipona...

farming [clarification needed] of stingless bees (SB), or meliponines (Meliponini tribe), which is different from apiculture (the breeding of bees of the...

originally known as Trigona australis) is a stingless bee species in the tribe Meliponini first validly described by Heinrich Friese in 1898. Within Australia,...

is a species of eusocial stingless bee in the family Apidae and tribe Meliponini. It is endemic to Brazil. Pedro, Silvia R. M. (2014). "The Stingless Bee...

Nogueira-Neto, P.; Ratnieks, F.L.W. (2007). "Comparative Study in Stingless Bees (Meliponini) Demonstrates that Nest Entrance Size Predicts Traffic and Defensivity"...

Austroplebeia is a stingless bee (Meliponini) genus in the family Apidae. The genus was erected by Jesus Santiago Moure in 1961. The genus comprises five...

Tarsaliini Tetrapediini †Melikertini Corbiculata Shuckard, 1866 Apini - honey bees Bombini - bumblebees Euglossini - orchid bees Meliponini - stingless bees...

is a species of eusocial stingless bee in the family Apidae and tribe Meliponini. Pedro, Silvia R. M. (2014). "The Stingless Bee Fauna In Brazil (Hymenoptera:...

Tetragonula hockingsi is a stingless bee, and thus belongs to the tribe Meliponini, which includes about 500 species. T. hockingsi belongs to the genus Tetragonula...