Plebeia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Apidae
- Genus
- Plebeia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Plebeia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
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 analyses indicate that Schwarziana is a distinct lineage, while Plebeia is paraphyletic.
Due to their small sizes, in Brazil many species are known as abelha-mirim (literally "small bee") in Portuguese.
...Plebeia in languages:
- Portuguese
- Abelhas-mirins
- Thai
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Austroplebeia
- Camargoia
- Cephalotrigona
- Cleptotrigona
- Dactylurina
- Dolichotrigona
- Duckeola
- Friesella
- Frieseomelitta
- Geniotrigona
- Geotrigona
- Heterotrigona
- Homotrigona
- Hypotrigona
- Lepidotrigona
- Lestrimelitta
- Leurotrigona
- Liotrigona
- Lisotrigona
- Meliplebeia
- Melipona
- Meliponula
- Meliwillea
- Mourella
- Nannotrigona
- Nogueirapis
- Oxytrigona
- Papuatrigona
- Paratrigona
- Paratrigonoides
- Pariotrigona
- Partamona
- Plebeia
- Plebeina
- Proplebeia
- Ptilotrigona
- Scaptotrigona
- Scaura
- Schwarziana
- Schwarzula
- Tetragona
- Tetragonilla
- Tetragonisca
- Tetragonula
- Tetrigona
- Trichotrigona
- Trigona
- Trigonisca
- Wallacetrigona
Child Taxa
- Plebeia alvarengai
- Plebeia catamarcensis
- Plebeia cora
- Plebeia droryana
- Plebeia emerina
- Plebeia flavocincta
- Plebeia frontalis
- Plebeia fulvopilosa
- Plebeia jatiformis
- Plebeia latitarsis
- Plebeia llorentei
- Plebeia lucii
- Plebeia manantlensis
- Plebeia melanica
- Plebeia mexica
- Plebeia minima
- Plebeia molesta
- Plebeia mosquito
- Plebeia moureana
- Plebeia nigriceps
- Plebeia parkeri
- Plebeia phrynostoma
- Plebeia poecilochroa
- Plebeia pulchra
- Plebeia remota
- Plebeia saiqui
- Plebeia tobagoensis































































































































































