Revista de Biología Tropical ISSN Impreso: 0034-7744 ISSN electrónico: 2215-2075

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New species of <i>Trigona</i> and cleptobiotic <i>Lestrimelitta</i> from French Guiana (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
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Roubik, D. W. (1980). New species of <i>Trigona</i> and cleptobiotic <i>Lestrimelitta</i> from French Guiana (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Revista De Biología Tropical, 28(2), 263–269. Retrieved from https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/25546

Abstract

The worker of a new species of cleptobiotic stingless bee, L estrimelitta guyanensis. and the queen, worker and male of Trigona (Tetragona) savannensis are described from specimens collected in coastal forest and sayanna of French Guiana. Type material was deposited in the Snow Entomological Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.
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