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Review of scaura schwarz, 1938 (hymenoptera: Apidae: meliponini)

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 genus currently includes four valid species. A species complex composed of three additional species are described here as new...

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Autor principal: Nogueira, David Silva
Outros Autores: dos Santos, José Eustáquio, Oliveira, Favízia Freitas de, Oliveira, Marcio Luiz de
Grau: Artigo
Idioma: English
Publicado em: Zootaxa 2020
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Acesso em linha: https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/16573
Resumo:
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 genus currently includes four valid species. A species complex composed of three additional species are described here as new (S. amazonica sp. n., S. aspera sp. n. and S. cearensis sp. n.). In addition to the descriptions and redescriptions of the species of Scaura, an illustrated identification key is presented, as well as updated geographical records. Copyright © 2019 Magnolia Press.