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Trigona (Tetragonula)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Superfamily
  
Apoidea

Rank
  
Subgenus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Hymenoptera

Family
  
Apidae

Similar
  
Tetragonula carbonaria, Trigona hockingsi, Tetragonula iridipennis, Tetragonula laeviceps, Stingless bee

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Tetragonula is a subgenera of the genus Trigona. In 1961, Brazilian bee expert, Professor J.S. Moure, first proposed the genus name Tetragonula. It was an effort to improve the classification system by dividing the Trigona stingless bees into 9 smaller subgenera. The subgenus Tetragonula includes about 30 other stingless bee species that are found in Oceania, in countries such as Australia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Malaysia, Thailand, The Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, and The Solomon Islands.

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Trigona tetragonula native stingless bees winter update


Species

  • Tetragonula carbonaria
  • Tetragonula clypearis
  • Tetragonula davenporti
  • Tetragonula hockingsi
  • Tetragonula mellipes
  • Tetragonula sapiens
  • References

    Trigona (Tetragonula) Wikipedia


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