†Trigona (Hypotrigona) dominicana Wille and Chandler 1964 (stingless bee)
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Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae
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 Trigona (Hypotrigona) according to A. Wille 1977
Sister taxon: Trigona (Hypotrigona) eocenica
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: there are no occurrences of Trigona (Hypotrigona) dominicana in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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