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Trigona

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Taxonomy
Trigona was named by Jurine (1807). It is extant.

It was reranked as Melipona (Trigona) by Vachal (1903).

It was assigned to Melipona by Vachal (1903); to Meliponinae by Cockerell (1908); to Meliponini by Zeuner and Manning (1976) and Sakagami (1978); to Apidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Meliponitae by Engel (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1807Trigona Jurine p. 245
1903Melipona (Trigona) Vachal p. 359
1908Trigona Cockerell p. 327
1976Trigona Zeuner and Manning p. 216
1978Trigona Sakagami p. 165
1992Trigona Carpenter
2021Trigona Engel p. 17

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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()
subtribeMeliponina
Meliponitae
genusTrigona

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. Trigona Jurine 1807
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Subg. Trigona (Hypotrigona) Cockerell 1934
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Trigona (Hypotrigona) dominicana Wille and Chandler 1964
Trigona (Hypotrigona) eocenica Kelner-Pillault 1970
Subg. †Trigona (Kelneriapis) Sakagami 1978
Subg. Trigona (Liotrigona) Moure 1961
Subg. †Trigona (Roussyana) Manning 1960
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Subg. Trigona (Trigona) Jurine 1807
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available