Mutualistic association between a tiny Amazonian stingless bee and a wax-producing scale insect

Biotropica

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 446-451

  Camargo, João M F ^a   Pedro, Silvia R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Coccidae; Cryptostigma; Meliponini; Mutualism; Schwarzula; Soft scale insect; Stingless bees

Indexed keywords

INQUILINISM; MUTUALISM; TROPHOBIOSIS;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; CAESALPINIOIDEAE; CAMPSIANDRA; CAMPSIANDRA ANGUSTIFOLIA; COCCIDAE; CRYPTOSTIGMA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HOMOPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MELIPONINAE; SCAPTOTRIGONA POSTICA; SCHWARZULA;

EID: 0036769831     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2002.tb00559.x     Document Type: Article

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