Meliponini

stingless bees (stunted stinger) tribe of insects from honey bees family

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Trigonisca is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae.

thumb | right | Paratrigona Lineata (example). Paratrigona is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae.

Scaptotrigona is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae.

Geotrigona is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae.

Frieseomelitta is a stingless bee (Meliponini) genus in the family Apidae. It currently contains about 16 described species: Frieseomelitta dispar Frieseomelitta doederleini Frieseomelitta flavicornis Frieseomelitta francoi Frieseomelitta freiremaiai Frieseomelitta languida Frieseomelitta lehmanni Frieseomelitta longipes Frieseomelitta meadewaldoi Frieseomelitta nigra Frieseomelitta paranigra Frieseomelitta paupera Frieseomelitta portoi Frieseomelitta silvestrii Frieseomelitta trichocerata Frieseomelitta varia

Lestrimelitta is a genus of stingless bees found in the Neotropics, from Mexico to Brazil and Argentina, with about 20 known species. They are small, shining black species from 4 to 7 mm in length, with rounded heads and reduced pollen baskets. Unlike most eusocial bees, they do not gather their own pollen and nectar from flowers, thus are not pollinators, but instead they invade the colonies of other stingless bee species and rob their pollen and honey stores (a phenomenon called "cleptobiosis"). They do not initiate their own nests, but they will "evict" another stingless bee colony fro

Nannotrigona is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae. The species of this genus are found in Central and South America.

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Partamona is a genus of stingless bees in the family Apidae. Herbert Ferlando Schwarz in 1938 described the genus. The genus is found from Mexico to Brazil.

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Cephalotrigona is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae. The species of this genus are found in Central and South America.

Oxytrigona is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae.

Tetragona is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae.

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Plebeia is a genus of mostly small-bodied stingless bees, formerly included in the genus Trigona. Most of the ~45 species are placed in the subgenus (Plebeia) (s.s.), but there also are four species in the subgenus (Scaura). They differ in only minor structural details, primarily of the hind leg, from other genera that were formerly treated as constituents of Trigona. In some classifications, the genus Schwarziana is treated as a subgenus within Plebeia, but recent morphological analyses indicate that Schwarziana is a distinct lineage, while Plebeia is paraphyletic.

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Scaura is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae.

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Ptilotrigona is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae.

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Nogueirapis is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae.

Tetragonisca is a genus of stingless bees in the family Apidae. There are at least four described species in Tetragonisca, found in Central and South America.

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Leurotrigona is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae.

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Duckeola is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae.

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Schwarziana is a relatively small genus of South American stingless bees. Like other stingless bees, Schwarziana are eusocial, with large colonies primarily composed of workers and one queen. Unusually for stingless bees, colonies are formed in underground chambers rather than in tree cavities. Workers are approximately 6.5mm long

Camargoia is a genus of bees belonging to the family Apidae.

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Dactylurina is a genus of bees first described in 1934.

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