Trigona (Hypotrigona) eocenica Kelner-Pillault 1970 (stingless bee)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Full reference: S. Kelner-Pillault. 1970. Une mélipone (s.l.) de l'ambre Balte (Hym. Apidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 6:437-441

Belongs to Trigona (Hypotrigona) according to A. Wille 1977

Sister taxon: Trigona (Hypotrigona) dominicana

Type specimen: MB.I.1946 (ZMHB), an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Zoological Museum, Humboldt Univ Berlin (ZHMB MfN) Collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Zoological Museum, Humboldt Univ Berlin (ZHMB MfN) Collection

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