Mexico is part of the Mesoamerican region where ancient bee keeping (meliponiculture, or
stingless bee keeping) emerged and reached exceptional levels. Different events caused …

Across the globe, wild bees are threatened by ongoing natural habitat loss, risking the
maintenance of plant biodiversity and agricultural production. Despite the ecological and …

Morphological traits can be highly variable over time in a particular geographical area.
Different selective pressures shape those traits, which is crucial in evolutionary biology …

Stingless bees are important pollinators of wild and cultivated plants, and they produce
medicinal honey. However, their taxonomy and systematics are still debated and would …

Integrated taxonomy uses evidence from a number of different character types to delimit
species and other natural groupings. While this approach has been advocated recently, and …

Cuticular hydrocarbon (CHCs) variation has been detected in various insect taxa, but the
potential contribution of cuticular compounds for analyzing intraspecific diversity at the …

Stingless bees (Meliponini) form a large monophyletic group with a pantropical distribution.
Southern China is on the northern border of this distribution in Asia, and previous studies …

Simple Summary The status of DNA barcoding in the cryptic species of stingless bees from
Borneo, Tetragonula laeviceps sensu lato (sl)(Smith 1857), is poorly known. The T …

Melipona stingless bee species of Central America and Mexico are important ecologically,
culturally, and economically as pollinators and as a source of food and medicine. Despite …

Geometric morphometrics and molecular methods are effective tools to study the variability
of stingless bee populations and species that merit protection given their worldwide decline …