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Meliponorytes sicula

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Taxonomy
Meliponorytes sicula was named by Tosi (1896). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Sicilian amber (Bologna coll), which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Italy.

It was recombined as Trigona sicula by Zeuner and Manning (1976).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1896Meliponorytes sicula Tosi p. 355 fig. 9
1964Meliponorytes sicula Kerr and Maule p. 10
1976Trigona sicula Zeuner and Manning p. 224
1987Meliponorytes sicula Spahr p. 12
2023Meliponorytes sicula 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
RankNameAuthor
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyApoidea
—AnthophilaLatreille 1804
familyApidae()
subfamilyApinae()
—Apiti
—CorbiculataShuckard 1866
tribeMeliponini()
subtribeHypotrigonina
genusMeliponorytes
speciessicula

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.

†Meliponorytes sicula Tosi 1896
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available