Intratribal Variation among Mature Larvae of Stingless Bees (Apidae: Meliponini) with Descriptions of the Eggs of 11 Species
Author
Rozen, Jerome G.
Author
Almeida, Eduardo A. B.
Author
Smith, Corey Shepard
Author
Jones, Lance Eric
text
American Museum Novitates
2021
2021-06-28
2021
3971
https://bioone.org/journals/american-museum-novitates/volume-2021/issue-3971/3971.1/Intratribal-Variation-among-Mature-Larvae-of-Stingless-Bees-Apidae/10.1206/3971.1.full
journal volume
10.1206/3971.1
0003-0082
SCAPTOTRIGONA DEPILIS
(MOURE)
Figures 3A, B, 18, 39A, B
DESCRIPTION:
Head:
Size small relative to body size (fig. 18).
Mandible tapering from broad base to long slender apex (fig. 39B); apex pigmented; mandible of cleared specimen seen in dorsal, inner, or ventral views (fig. 3A, B) slender, tapering evenly from base to pointed apex; apical concavity narrow, about as long as distance from mandibular base at base of cusp; dorsal edge of apical concavity with numerous long, slender, sharp spines; ventral edge smooth or nearly so; dorsal mandibular surface (fig. 3A) strongly spiculate particularly near basal edge of apical concavity; some spicules also on basal inner surface of concavity.
Body:
Anterior body segments with distinct but small, projecting, paired dorsolateral tubercles (fig. 39A), thoracic ones of which tending to be darkly pigmented.
MATERIAL STUDIED: 6+ postdefecating larvae:
Brazil
,
São Paulo
, Piracicaba.
13-VII- 2019
.
E.A.B. Almeida
and
D.A. Alves
.