Ecology
Habitat
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 5 samples.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 77 - 448
Temperature range (°C): 13.929 - 19.650
Nitrate (umol/L): 0.577 - 15.954
Salinity (PPS): 34.972 - 36.065
Oxygen (ml/l): 3.234 - 5.165
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.120 - 1.019
Silicate (umol/l): 3.199 - 6.630
Graphical representation
Depth range (m): 77 - 448
Temperature range (°C): 13.929 - 19.650
Nitrate (umol/L): 0.577 - 15.954
Salinity (PPS): 34.972 - 36.065
Oxygen (ml/l): 3.234 - 5.165
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.120 - 1.019
Silicate (umol/l): 3.199 - 6.630
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Associations
Known prey organisms
Mammalia
Based on studies in:
Costa Rica (Carrion substrate)
This list may not be complete but is based on published studies.
- L. F. Jiron and V. M. Cartin, 1981. Insect succession in the decomposition of a mammal in Costa Rica. J. New York Entomol. Soc. 89:158-165, from p. 163.
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Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Statistics of barcoding coverage: Trigona FRGsp2
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Trigona MEX01
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Trigona VNM04
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Trigona ARG01
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Trigona GUAT
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Trigona MEX02
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Trigona ECU01
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Trigona FRGsp1
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Statistics of barcoding coverage
| Specimen Records: | 434 | Public Records: | 4 |
| Specimens with Sequences: | 201 | Public Species: | 4 |
| Specimens with Barcodes: | 171 | Public BINs: | 3 |
| Species: | 49 | ||
| Species With Barcodes: | 26 | ||
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Barcode data
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Locations of barcode samples
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Wikipedia
Trigona (genus)
Trigona is the largest genus of stingless bees, formerly including many more subgenera than the present assemblage; many of these former subgenera have been elevated to generic status.[1] There are approximately 150 species presently included in the genus, in 11 subgenera. They differ from those groups now excluded in only minor structural details, primarily of the hind leg.
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Range [edit]
Trigona species occur throughout the Neotropical region, and also throughout the Indo-Australian region; as presently defined, no members of the genus occur in Africa.
Vulture bees [edit]
Vulture bees comprise of three Trigona species that are the only known bees not to be herbivores.
Selected species [edit]
- Trigona barrocoloralensis [2]
- Trigona branneri—Mato Grosso (BR) [3]
- Trigona carbonaria—Queensland (AU) [4][5]
- Trigona chanchamayoensis—Mato Grosso (BR) [3]
- Trigona collina Thailand
- Trigona iridipennis India
- Trigona fuscipennis [6]
- Trigona hockingsi -- (AU) [7]
- Trigona hyalinata—Mato Grosso (BR) [3]
- Trigona minangkabau [2]
- Trigona recursa—Mato Grosso (BR) [3][6]
- Trigona spinipes -- arapuá (BR) [8]
References [edit]
- ^ Michener, C.D. (2000). The Bees of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press
- ^ a b Hoshiba and Imai (1993). "Chromosome evolution of bees and wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) on the basis of C-banding patterns analyses". Japan Journal of Genetics.
- ^ a b c d Kleber França Costa, Rute Magalhães Brito, Carlos Suetoshi Miyazawa (2004). "Karyotypic description of four species of Trigona (Jurine, 1807) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) from the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil". Genetics and Molecular Biology (Brazilian Society of Genetics) 27 (2): 187–190.
- ^ "The southernmost stingless bee in the world". Aussie Bee Bulletin (1). February 1, 1997.
- ^ "Stingless Bees (Trigona and Austroplebeia)".
- ^ a b Tarelho, Z. V. S. (1973). Contribuição ao estudo citogenético dos Apoidea (masters thesis). University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto.
- ^ "Bees in your area".
- ^ Brito and Pompolo (1997). "C:G patterns and fluorochrome staining with DAPI and CMA3, in Trigona spinipes (Jurine, 1807) (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae)". Brazilian Journal of Genetics.
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Vulture bee
Vulture bees are a small group of three closely related American stingless bee species in the genus Trigona which feed on rotting meat rather than pollen or nectar. These are the only known bees which do not rely on plant products for food. This unusual behavior was only discovered in 1982, nearly two centuries after the bees were first classified. The three species in this group are:
Trigona crassipes (Fabricius, 1793)
Trigona hypogea hypogea Silvestri, 1902 and Trigona hypogea robustior Schwarz, 1948 (two subspecies within T. hypogea)
Trigona necrophaga Camargo & Roubik, 1991
Vulture bees, much like maggots, usually enter the carcass through the eyes. They will then root around inside gathering the meat suitable for their needs. The vulture bees salivates on the rotting flesh and then sucks it up storing it special stomach compartment until it has flown back to the nest. When it returns home, this meat is transferred to another Vulture bee. This bee's job is to mix the animal flesh with a digestive fluid to break it down into an edible substance. This substance is then placed into pot-like containers within the nest until it is time to feed the immature bees.
References
- Roubik, D.W. 1982. Obligate necrophagy in a social bee. Science 217: 1059-1060.
- Camargo, J.M.F. & Roubik, D.W. 1991. Systematics and bionomics of the apoid obligate necrophages: the Trigona hypogea group. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 44: 13-39.
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