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Meliponorytes

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Taxonomy
Meliponorytes was named by Tosi (1896).

It was synonymized subjectively with Trigona by Zeuner and Manning (1976).

It was assigned to Meliponinae by Cockerell (1908); to Meliponini by Engel (2001); to Hypotrigonitae by Engel (2021); and to Hypotrigonina by Engel et al. (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1896Meliponorytes Tosi p. 352
1908Meliponorytes Cockerell p. 327
2001Meliponorytes Engel p. 181
2021Meliponorytes Engel p. 17
2023Meliponorytes Engel et al. p. 294

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
Aculeata()
superfamilyApoidea
AnthophilaLatreille 1804
familyApidae()
subfamilyApinae()
Apiti
CorbiculataShuckard 1866
tribeMeliponini()
subtribeHypotrigonina
genusMeliponorytes

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.

G. †Meliponorytes Tosi 1896
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Meliponorytes sicula Tosi 1896
Meliponorytes succini Tosi 1896
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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Miocene or 11.60800 to 5.33300 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Italy M. succini, M. sicula (123432)