The Atlantic Forest harbors 7% of global biodiversity and possesses high levels of
endemism, but many of its component taxa remain unstudied. Due to the importance of …

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 …

Meliponines, popularly known as stingless bees, present a great diversity of species widely
distributed in tropical regions. Some species are rationally reared to obtain bee products like …

Geometric morphometrics is an approach widely used in biological research. For bees, wing
landmarks are applied to investigate several questions, such as species identification and …

Scaura Schwarz is a small, widely distributed Neotropical genus of stingless bees whose
workers and males have the metabasitarsus as broad as or wider than the metatibia. The …

Tropical dry forests are increasingly threatened by human activities. In Northeast Brazil, the
Caatinga, an area of tropical dry forests surrounded by wetlands, is considered globally …

Abstract Oxytrigona tataira Smith (Trans Ent Soc Lond 11: 497–512, 1863) was considered
by different taxonomists to be a species with complex taxonomy, a dubious status and in …

Large rivers are usually associated with vicariance and diversification of terrestrial species,
but little is known about these effects in overlooked areas from South America, like São …

Soipijit S, Sopaladawan PN. 2024. Wing geometric morphometric analysis of dwarf
honeybee (Apis florea) populations in Thailand. Biodiversitas 25: 3568-3575. The dwarf …

Native stingless bees, Meliponini, are the only social bees that produce honey in addition to
honeybees. These bees have been managed in meliponiculture and for crop pollination. In …