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.References
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