New stingless bee genus endemic to Central American cloudforests: Phylogenetic and biogeographic implications (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 67-80

  Roubik, David W ^b   Segura, Jorge Arturo Lobo ^a   De Camargo, João Maria Franco ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIDAE; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; MELIPONINAE; MELIWILLEA; MELIWILLEA BIVEA; NANNOTRIGONA; PARATRIGONA; SCAPTOTRIGONA; SCAPTOTRIGONA POSTICA;

EID: 0002394260     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.1997.d01-19.x     Document Type: Article

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