Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae
Alternative combinations: Plebeia dominicana, Trigona (Liotrigona) dominicana, Trigona dominicana
Full reference: A. Wille and L. C. Chandler. 1964. A new stingless bee from the Tertiary amber of the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera; Meliponini). Revista de Biología Tropical 12:187-195
Belongs to Proplebeia according to M. S. Engel et al. 2023
See also Camargo et al. 2000, Michener and Poinar 1996, Morris 1976, Moure and Camargo 1978, Spahr 1987, Wille 1977 and Wille and Chandler 1964
Sister taxa: Proplebeia abdita, Proplebeia silacea, Proplebeia tantilla, Proplebeia vetusta
Type specimen: AMNH DR-14-1178, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Illinois NHS coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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