Research Article

Diversity and Nesting Substrates of Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera, Meliponina) in a Forest Remnant

Table 1

Number of nests and substrate types used by each stingless bee species in a forest fragment located in the municipality of Araguari, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Bee speciesNumber of nestsNesting substrate category*

(1) Cephalotrigona capitata (Smith, 1874)03f, f, f
(2) Frieseomelitta varia (Lepeletier,1836)03e, g, h
(3) Lestrimelitta limao (Smith,1863)01f
(4) Melipona rufiventris (Lepeletier, 1836)10b, f, f, f, f, f, f, f, f, f
(5) Oxytrigona tataira (Smith, 1863)01f
(6) Partamona ailyae (Camargo, 1980)06f, f, f, f, f, k
(7) Partamona combinata (Pedro and Camargo, 2003)03j, j, k
(8) Plebeia droryana (Friese, 1900)01f
(9) Scaptotrigona bipunctata (Lepeletier, 1836)06f, f, f, f, f, f
(10) Scaptotrigona depilis (Moure, 1942)04b, f, f, f
(11) Scaura longula (Lepeletier, 1836)01f
(12) Tetragona clavipes (Fabricius, 1804)06f, f, f, f, f, f
(13) Tetragona quadrangula (Lepeletier, 1836)02f, f
(14) Tetragonisca angustula (Latreille, 1811)07b, e, f, f, f, f, h
(15) Trigona fulviventris (Guérin, 1837)02c, c
(16) Trigona hyalinata (Lepeletier, 1836)06a, f, f, f, f, f
(17) Trigona hypogea (Silvestri, 1902)02d, f
(18) Trigona recursa (Smith, 1863)02k, k
(19) Trigona spinipes (Fabricius, 1793)02i, i
(20) Trigona truculenta (Almeida, 1985)01a

: rock substrate, b: dead trunk, c: underground termitaria, d: soil, e: wall, f: live trunk, g: cement pole, h: wooden pole, i: vine, j: arboreous termitaria, k: epigeous termitaria.