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Plebeia
Plebeia is a genus of mostly small-bodied stingless bees, formerly included in the genus Trigona. Most of the ~45 species are placed in the subgenus (Plebeia) (s.s.), but there also are four species in the subgenus (Scaura). They differ in only minor structural details, primarily of the hind leg, from other genera that were formerly treated as constituents of Trigona. In some classifications, the genus Schwarziana is treated as a subgenus within Plebeia, but recent morphological...
25 branches of this group, most-observed first
Drory's Stingless Bee
speciesPlebeia droryana
Emerina Stingless Bee
speciesPlebeia emerina
Plebeia frontalis
speciesPlebeia frontalis
Plebeia remota
speciesPlebeia remota
Plebeia poecilochroa
speciesPlebeia poecilochroa
Plebeia catamarcensis
speciesPlebeia catamarcensis
Plebeia jatiformis
speciesPlebeia jatiformis
Plebeia pulchra
speciesPlebeia pulchra
Plebeia flavocincta
speciesPlebeia flavocincta
Plebeia franki
speciesPlebeia franki
Manantlán Stingless Bee
speciesPlebeia manantlensis
Plebeia lucii
speciesPlebeia lucii
Plebeia saiqui
speciesPlebeia saiqui
Plebeia molesta
speciesPlebeia molesta
Plebeia nigriceps
speciesPlebeia nigriceps
Plebeia fulvopilosa
speciesPlebeia fulvopilosa
Plebeia tobagoensis
speciesPlebeia tobagoensis
Plebeia mexica
speciesPlebeia mexica
Plebeia wittmanni
speciesPlebeia wittmanni
Plebeia llorentei
speciesPlebeia llorentei
Plebeia phrynostoma
speciesPlebeia phrynostoma
Plebeia mosquito
speciesPlebeia mosquito
Plebeia cora
speciesPlebeia cora
Plebeia melanica
speciesPlebeia melanica
Plebeia parkeri
speciesPlebeia parkeri
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1581630.