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| Oliveira,Marcio L.; Morato,Elder F.; Garcia,Marcos V.B.. |
| Stingless bees were collected between 1984 and 1990 in continuous forest, forest fragments and cleared areas 90 Km north of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Several methods were employed. a total of 54 species of 21 genera were collected including two undescribed species of Plebeia Schwarz, 1938. The most abundant genera were Trigona Jurine, 1807; Melipona Illiger, 1806; Partamona Schwarz, 1939 and Tetragona Lepeletier, 1825. The most abundant species were Trigona crassipes (Fabricius, 1793) and T. fulviventris Guérin, 1835. Fruit fly traps baited with fragrances for euglossine bees showed to be an useful method for stingless bee collection too. The study area showed a great richness in relation to other regions of the world. However the density of nests found... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Diversity; Nest density; Conservation; Amazônia; Stingless bees. |
| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-81751995000100004 |
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| Oliveira,Marcio L.; Morato,Elder F.. |
| Records about stingless bee-fungi interaction are very rare. In Brazilian Amazonia, workers of Trigona crassipes (Fabricius, 1793) and Trigona fulviventris Guérin, 1835 visiting two stinkhorn species, Dictyophora sp. and Phallus sp., respectively, were observed. The workers licked the fungi gleba, a mucilaginous mass of spores covering the pileum. Neither gleba residue nor spores were found on the body surface of these bee workers. These observations indicate that these bee species include spores as a complement in their diet. On the other hand, they also suggest that these stingless bees can, at times, facilitale spore dispersal, in case intact spores are eliminated with the feces. |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/other |
Palavras-chave: Stingless bee-fungi interaction; Dictyophora; Phallus; Phallales; Robbery; Spore dispersal; Trigona. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-81752000000300025 |
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