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Proplebeia dominicana

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Taxonomy
Trigona (Liotrigona) dominicana was named by Wille and Chandler (1964). Its type specimen is AMNH DR-14-1178, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Illinois NHS coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

It was recombined as Trigona (Hypotrigona) dominicana by Morris (1976) and Wille (1977); it was recombined as Plebeia dominicana by Moure and Camargo (1978); it was recombined as Trigona dominicana by Spahr (1987); it was recombined as Proplebeia dominicana by Michener and Poinar (1996), Camargo et al. (2000) and Engel et al. (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1964Trigona (Liotrigona) dominicana Wille and Chandler p. 188 figs. 1-5
1976Trigona (Hypotrigona) dominicana Morris p. 256
1977Trigona (Hypotrigona) dominicana Wille p. 44
1978Plebeia dominicana Moure and Camargo p. 563
1987Trigona dominicana Spahr
1996Proplebeia dominicana Michener and Poinar
2000Proplebeia dominicana Camargo et al. p. 3 figs. 1-7, 9
2023Proplebeia dominicana 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
—Hymenopterida
RankNameAuthor
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyApoidea
—AnthophilaLatreille 1804
familyApidae()
subfamilyApinae()
—Apiti
—CorbiculataShuckard 1866
tribeMeliponini()
subtribeMeliponina
—Meliponitae
genusProplebeiaMichener 1982
speciesdominicana()

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 dominicana Wille and Chandler 1964
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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: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Proplebeia dominicana (122472 122982) Trigona dominicana (type locality: 139308 146557)