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Proplebeia silacea

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Taxonomy
Trigona (Nogueirapis) silacea was named by Wille (1959). Its type specimen is UCMP 12601, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is UCMP B-5341, San Pedro, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.

It was recombined as Nogueirapis silacea by Engel and Michener (2013); it was recombined as Proplebeia silacea by Engel et al. (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1959Trigona (Nogueirapis) silacea Wille p. 849 figs. Pl. 119, Figs. 1-4
1964Trigona (Nogueirapis) silacea Kerr and Maule p. 13
1976Trigona (Nogueirapis) silacea Morris p. 257
1977Trigona (Nogueirapis) silacea Wille p. 44
1987Trigona (Nogueirapis) silacea Spahr p. 15
2013Nogueirapis silacea Engel and Michener p. 9
2023Proplebeia silacea Engel et al. p. 294

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyApoidea
—AnthophilaLatreille 1804
familyApidae()
subfamilyApinae()
—Apiti
—CorbiculataShuckard 1866
tribeMeliponini()
subtribeMeliponina
—Meliponitae
genusProplebeiaMichener 1982
speciessilacea()

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.

†Proplebeia silacea Wille 1959
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Early/Lower Miocene or 23.04000 to 15.98000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene23.04 - 15.98Mexico (Chiapas) Trigona silacea (type locality: 138882 140313)