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Kelneriapis eocenica

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Taxonomy
Hypotrigona eocenica was named by Kelner-Pillault (1970). Its type specimen is MB.I.1946 (ZMHB), an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. It is the type species of Kelneriapis.

It was recombined as Trigona (Hypotrigona) eocenica by Kelner-Pillault (1970), Morris (1976) and Wille (1977); it was recombined as Kelnermelia eocenica by Moure (1978) and Spahr (1987); it was recombined as Trigona (Kelneriapis) eocenica by Sakagami (1978); it was recombined as Kelneriapis eocenica by Engel (2001), Engel (2021) and Engel et al. (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1970Trigona (Hypotrigona) eocenica Kelner-Pillault p. 473 figs. 1-3
1976Trigona (Hypotrigona) eocenica Morris p. 256
1977Trigona (Hypotrigona) eocenica Wille p. 44
1978Kelnermelia eocenica Moure p. 565
1978Trigona (Kelneriapis) eocenica Sakagami p. 232
1987Kelnermelia eocenica Spahr
2001Kelneriapis eocenica Engel p. 134 figs. 111; pl 7e
2021Kelneriapis eocenica Engel p. 52
2023Kelneriapis eocenica 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()
subtribeHypotrigonina
—Hypotrigonitae
genusKelneriapis()
specieseocenica()

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.

†Kelneriapis eocenica Kelner-Pillault 1970
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available