Contribution to the taxonomy of Oxytrigona Cockerell, 1917 (Apidae, Meliponini)
Author
Lepeco, Anderson
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.4
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10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.4
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Oxytrigona
Cockerell, 1917
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.