Oxytrigona Cockerell, 1917

Lepeco, Anderson, 2024, Contribution to the taxonomy of Oxytrigona Cockerell, 1917 (Apidae, Meliponini), Zootaxa 5506 (3), pp. 369-395 : 371

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.4

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13759732

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Oxytrigona Cockerell, 1917
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Oxytrigona Cockerell, 1917: 124 (first described as a subgenus of Trigona Jurine, 1807 ). Type species: Trigona flaveola mediorufa Cockerell, 1913 by original designation.

Diagnosis. Species in the genus can be readily recognized by the wide head, with the distance between inner orbits longer than the eye length; clypeus about twice as wide as long; epistomal suture depressed ventral to tentorial pit level; malar space relatively long, about as long as 1.5 × the diameter of F3; distance between antennal sockets shorter than socket diameter; and keirotrichiate zone on posterior surface of metatibia wide, about twice as wide as the dorsal glabrous area.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Loc

Oxytrigona Cockerell, 1917

Lepeco, Anderson 2024
2024
Loc

Oxytrigona

Cockerell 1917: 124
1917
Loc

Trigona flaveola mediorufa

Cockerell 1913
1913
Loc

Trigona

Jurine 1807
1807
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