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Meliponinae (stingless bee)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Taxonomy
Meliponidae was named by Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau (1835). It is extant. Its type is Melipona.

It was corrected as Meliponinae by Cockerell (1908) and Winston and Michener (1977).

It was assigned to Apidae by Cockerell (1908) and Winston and Michener (1977).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1908Meliponinae Cockerell p. 327
1977Meliponinae Winston and Michener p. 1136

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyApoidea
—AnthophilaLatreille 1804
familyApidae()
subfamilyMeliponinae()
subfamilyMeliponinae()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subfm. Meliponinae Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau 1835 [stingless bee]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015
Collections
No collection or age range data are available