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Tetragonula (Tetragonula) iridipennis

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Taxonomy

Trigona iridipennis was named by Smith (1854). It is extant. Its type specimen is BMNH In.43809, an exoskeleton (In.43809).

It was recombined as Trigona (Tetragona) iridipennis by Zeuner and Manning (1976); it was recombined as Trigona (Tetragonula) iridipennis by Sakagami (1978); it was recombined as Tetragonula iridipennis by Rasmussen (2013); it was recombined as Tetragonula (Tetragonula) iridipennis by Engel et al. (2023).

Synonyms

Meliponorytes devictus was named by Cockerell (1921). Its type specimen is BMNH In.20702, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese copal (BMNH coll), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

It was recombined as Trigona (Tetragonula) devicta by Kerr and Maule (1964); it was recombined as Tetragona devicta by Kerr and da Cunha (1976); it was synonymized subjectively with Trigona (Tetragona) iridipennis by Zeuner and Manning (1976); it was recombined as Trigona devicta by Wille (1977); it was synonymized subjectively with Trigona (Tetragonula) iridipennis by Sakagami (1978); it was recombined as Tetragonula devicta by Moure and Camargo (1978) and Spahr (1987); it was synonymized subjectively with Tetragonula iridipennis by Rasmussen (2013).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1854	Trigona iridipennis Smith p. 413
1921	Meliponorytes devictus Cockerell p. 544 fig. 4
1964	Trigona (Tetragonula) devicta Kerr and Maule p. 11
1976	Tetragona devicta Kerr and da Cunha p. 39
1976	Trigona (Tetragona) iridipennis Zeuner and Manning p. 222
1977	Trigona devicta Wille p. 44
1978	Tetragonula devicta Moure and Camargo p. 564
1978	Trigona (Tetragonula) iridipennis Sakagami p. 216
1987	Tetragonula devicta Spahr p. 14
2013	Tetragonula iridipennis Rasmussen p. 411 figs. 4a-j
2023	Tetragonula (Tetragonula) iridipennis Engel et al. p. 292

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Hymenopterida

Rank	Name	Author
order	Hymenoptera
—	Unicalcarida
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
—	Aculeata	()
superfamily	Apoidea
—	Anthophila	Latreille 1804
family	Apidae	()
subfamily	Apinae	()
—	Apiti
—	Corbiculata	Shuckard 1866
tribe	Meliponini	()
subtribe	Hypotrigonina
—	Heterotrigonitae
genus	Tetragonula
subgenus	Tetragonula
species	iridipennis	()

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.

Tetragonula (Tetragonula) iridipennis Smith 1854

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Invalid names: Meliponorytes devictus Cockerell 1921 [synonym]

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: Holocene or 0.01170 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Myanmar	Meliponorytes devictus (151870)