... aguijón ) are eusocial insects, organized in perennial colonies and distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of the world (Michener 2013 ). They belong to the family Apidae, tribe Meliponini Lepeletier (Camargo and Pedro 2013 ), and have a polylectic foraging habit which takes advantage...

... Personnel – Capes 88887.467362/2019-00 There are currently over 600 species and about 60 genera of stingless bees (Meliponini) (Rasmussen and Cameron 2009 ). They are spread over a wide tropical and subtropical region of the planet (Michener 2007 ), especially in the Neotropics with more than...

... ). It belongs to the tribe Meliponini, subfamily Apinae, family Apidae, under the order Hymenoptera (Rahman et al. 2013 ). In large-scale crop pollination, T. biroi is used because it can easily be managed (Cervancia et al. 2012 ). Pollen is the main source of proteins, free amino acids, lipids...

...Alinne Costa Cavalcante Rezende; Maria Lúcia Absy; Marcos Gonçalves Ferreira; Helyde Albuquerque Marinho; Otilene dos Anjos Santos ABSTRACT Honey samples from stingless bees (tribe Meliponini) were analyzed in three Sataré Mawé indigenous communities located along the edges of the Maruá River...

...Marcos Goncalves Ferreira; Maria Lucia Absy ABSTRACT Monthly corbicular samples derived from weekly collections of Melipona (Melikerria) interrupta (Apidae: Meliponini) were analyzed alongside a single honey sample between January to December 2012. The botanical families Arecaceae, Melastomataceae...

...Jaílson Santos de Novais; Maria Lúcia Absy Abstract This is the first palynological study using pollen stored by Tetragonisca angustula (Apidae: Meliponini) in the Lower Amazon region, Pará, Brazil. The samples were directly collected from the pollen pots of T. angustula in apiaries located...

... M , Chaud-Netto J , Fowler HG. 2004 . Body size and flight distance in stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Meliponini): inference of flight range and possible ecological implications . Brazilian Journal of Biology . 64 ( 3B ): 563 – 568 . Barth MO. 2004 . Melissopalynology...

... in melissopalynology and science education, especially teaching botany at botanical gardens. References Abreu CO , Hilário SD , Luz CFP , Alves-dos-Santos I . 2014 . Pollen and nectar foraging by Melipona quadrifasciata anthidioides Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini...

... – The Palynological Society Conservation Meliponini pollen analysis pollination stingless bee The trophic niche, a widely investigated dimension within the ecological niche of bees, is typically assessed by analyzing the food resource of the species (Santos et al. 2013 , 2020 ). This type...

... stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini) are important pollinators of many plant species due to their feeding habits and behaviour of foraging, which is an important factor for the maintenance of biodiversity and the dynamics of tropical communities (Pacheco Filho et al. 2015 ), and these bees contribute...

... ) and Vossler ( 2015 ) on the preference of native bees for small flowers. The relationship between native bees (Meliponini) and small flowers is probably due to a diffuse co-evolutionary process (Vossler 2015 ). High percentages of pollen from trees in the samples ( Figure 5 ) shows that forests are very...

..., A. laboriosa Smith, A. florea Fabricius, A. andreniformis Smith, A. cerana Fabricius, A. indica Fabricius and A. karinjodian ) as well as stingless Meliponini according to Shanas et al. ( 2022 ) who also traced the ancestry of the European honey bee Apis mellifera Linnaeus in India to the Miocene...

... the importance of these families as the main pollen sources for A. mellifera and stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini) in neotropical habitats (Flores and Sánchez 2010 ; Flores et al. 2015 ). Likewise, this offer would respond to resource availability and access, with this family being one of the most...

... vegetation in Northeastern Brazil . Eur J Entomol . 111 ( 1 ): 25 – 34 . Novais JS , Garcêz ACA , Absy ML , Santos FAR . 2015 . Comparative pollen spectra of Tetragonisca angustula (Apidae, Meliponini) from the Lower Amazon (N Brazil) and caatinga (NE Brazil) . Apidologie 46...

...: Catálogo de Las Plantas Vasculares . Bogotá : D’Vinni ; p. 272 – 273 . Camargo J, Pedro S. 2008 . Meliponini Lepeletier. In: Gabriel A. R. Melo, editor. Catalogue of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in the neotropical region/Organized by Jesus Santiago Moure, Danúncia Urban. Curitiba: Sociedade...

... . Apidologie . 29 ( 4 ): 347 – 359 . Ramírez-Arriaga E , Martínez-Hernández E. 2007 . Melitopalynological characterization of Scaptotrigona mexicana Guérin (Apidae: Meliponini) and Apis mellifera L. (Apidae: Apini) honey samples from the north of Puebla State, Mexico . Journal...

... in the Neotropics . Science , 311 : 1893 – 1896 . KOZISEK , J.M. 2004 Survival and its implications: Tropical honeybees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) and the Cretaceous– Tertiary boundary . Geological Society of America, Program and Abstracts , p. 178 . KUYL , O.S. , MULLER , J...

... containing the Electrapini also includes the honey bees (tribe Apini), stingless bees (tribe Meliponini), and an extinct tribe allied to the stingless bees (tribe Melikertini) ( Engel, 2001a , 2001b ). Based both on their phylogenetic position and their morphology, the electrapines, like the Melikertini...

..., Pimentel ADA, Nogueira LL, Abreu VHR, Novais JS. 2021 . Palynoflora exploited by Frieseomelitta longipes (Smith, 1854) (Apinae: Meliponini) in protected areas from the Brazilian Amazon basin. Journal of Apicultural Research. 62:705–720. Stevens PF. 2017 . Angiosperm phylogeny website...