Vol. 61 No. 4 (2014)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v61i4

Published: 2015-01-16

Editorial

Special Issue on Stingless bees: Integrating basic biology and conservation

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Review

The Stingless Bee Fauna In Brazil (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Silvia R. M. Pedro

348-354
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Investigating Eusociality in Bees while Trusting the Uncertainty

Eduardo A. B. Almeida, Diego Sasso Porto

355-368
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Diapause in Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Charles Fernando dos Santos, Patrícia Nunes-Silva, Rosana Halinski, Betina Blochtein

369-377
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Research Article - Bees

Environmental windows for foraging activity in stingless bees, Melipona subnitida Ducke and Melipona quadrifasciata Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

Camila Maia-Silva, Vera Lucia Imperatriz-Fonseca, Cláudia Inês Silva, Michael Hrncir

378-385
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Exocrine glands in the legs of the stingless bee Frieseomelitta varia (Lepeletier) (Apidae: Meliponini)

Johan Billen, Lore Vander Plancken

386-392
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The Influence of the Loss of Brazilian Savanna Vegetation on the Occurrence of Nests of Stingless Bees (Apidae: Meliponini)

Fabiana Curtopassi Pioker-Hara, Murilo Sergio Drummond, Astrid de Matos Peixoto Kleinert

393-400
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Social Information in the Stingless Bee, Trigona corvina Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae): The Use of Visual and Olfactory Cues at the Food Site

Frank Max Joseph Sommerlandt, Werner Huber, Johannes Spaethe

401-406
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Distance and habitat drive fine scale stingless bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) community turnover across naturally heterogeneous forests in the western Amazon

Tracy Misiewicz, Ekaphan Kraichak, Claus Rasmussen

407-414
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Tree species used for nesting by stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) in the Atlantic Rain Forest (Brazil): Availability or Selectivity

Marília Dantas Silva, Mauro Ramalho

415-422
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Nesting sites, nest density and spatial distribution of Melipona colimana Ayala (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) in two highland zones of western, Mexico

Jose Octavio Macias-Macias, Javier Quezada-Euan, Jose Maria Tapia-Gonzalez, Francisca Conteras-Escareño

423-427
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Register of a New Nidification Substrate for Melipona subnitida Ducke (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini); Termitaria of the Arboreal Nesting Termite Constrictotermes cyphergaster Silvestri (Isoptera, Termitidae, Nasutitermitinae)

Airton Torres Carvalho, Dirk Koedam, Vera Lucia Imperatriz-Fonseca

428-434
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Waste Management in the Stingless Bee Melipona beecheii Bennett (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Luis A. Medina-Medina, Adam G. Hart, Francis L.W. Ratnieks

435-440
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Pollen and nectar foraging by Melipona quadrifasciata anthidioides Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) in natural habitat

Carina Oliveira-Abreu, Sérgio Dias Hilário, Cynthia Fernandes Pinto Luz, Isabel Alves dos Santos

441-448
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Variability of Food Stores of Tetragonisca fiebrigi (Schwarz) (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) from the Argentine Chaco Based on Pollen Analysis

Favio Gerardo Vossler, Guillermina Andrea Fagúndez, Diego Cesar Blettler

449-460
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Pollen Analysis of Food Pots Stored by Melipona subnitida Ducke (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in a Restinga area

Rafael Sousa Pinto, Patricia Maia Correia Albuquerque, Márcia Maria Corrêa Rêgo

461-469
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Utility of the ITS1 Region for Phylogenetic Analysis in Stingless Bees: a Case Study of the Endangered Melipona yucatanica Camargo, Moure and Roubik (Hymenoptera: Meliponini).

Carlos Ruiz, William de Jesús May-Itza, Guadalupe Quezeda-Euán, Pilar De la Rua

470-477
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Population Structure of Melipona subnitida Ducke (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) at the Southern Limit of its Distribution Based on Geometric Morphometrics of Forewings

Cândida Beatriz Lima, lorena Andrade Nunes, Márcia de Fátima Ribeiro, Carlos Alfredo Carvalho

478-482
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Size variation in eggs laid by normal-sized and miniature queens of Plebeia remota (Holmberg) (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

Márcia de Fátima Ribeiro, Pérsio de Souza Santos Filho

483-489
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Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) Attracted to Animal Carcasses in the Brazilian Dry Forest and Implications for Forensic Entomology

Wellington Emanuel dos Santos, Liedson Tavares Carneiro, Ana Claudia Firmino Alves, Antonio José Creão-Duarte, Celso Feitosa Martins

490-493
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Foraging distance of Melipona subnitida Ducke (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Albeane Guimarães Silva, Rafael Sousa Pinto, Felipe Andres Leon Contrera, Patricia Maia Correia Albuquerque, Márcia Maria Corrêa Rêgo

494-501
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Adaptive and Foraging Behavior of Two Stingless Bee Species in Greenhouse Mini Watermelon Pollination

Isac Gabriel Abrahão Bomfim, Antonio Diego de Melo Bezerra, Alexandre Campos Nunes, Fernando Antonio Souza de Aragão, Breno Magalhães Freitas

502-509
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Pollination Services Provided by Melipona quadrifasciata Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Meliponini) in Greenhouses with Solanum lycopersicum L. (Solanaceae)

Bruno Ferreira Bartelli, Fernanda Helena Nogueira-Ferreira

510-516
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Assessing Sperm Quality in Stingless Bees

Hiara Marques Meneses, Sheina Koffler, Breno Magalhaes Freitas, Vera Lucia Imperatriz-Fonseca, Rodolfo Jaffé

517-522
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How far can Melipona mandacaia (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) foragers fly in a caatinga area of NE Brazil?

Francimária Rodrigues, Márcia de Fátima Ribeiro

523-528
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Geographic Distribution, Key Challenges and Prospects for the Conservation of Threatened Stingless Bee Melipona capixaba Moure e Camargo (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Helder Canto Resende, Tânia M. Fernandes-Salomão, M. G. Tavares, Lúcio A. O. Campos

529-535
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The effect of toxic nectar and pollen from Spathodea campanulata on the worker survival of Melipona fasciculata Smith and Melipona seminigra Friese, two Amazonian stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

Ana Carolina Martins Queiroz, Felipe Andrés Leon Contrera, Giorgio Cristino Venturieri

536-540
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Defensive repertoire of the stingless bee Melipona flavolineata Friese (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Túlio Marcos Nunes, Lucas Garcia von Zuben, Luciano Costa, Giorgio Cristino Venturieri

541-546
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Pattern of the daily flight activity in two colonies of Nannotrigona testaceicornis (Lepeletier, 1836) (Hymenoptera, Apidae) in different conditions in the Brazilian semiarid region

Wagner Pereira Silva, Miriam Gimenes

547-553
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Rescue of Stingless bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) nests: an important form of mitigating impacts caused by deforestation

Luciano Costa, Rafael Franco, Leandro Guimarães, Ayrton Vollet Neto, Filipi Silva, Guaraci Duran Cordeiro

554-559
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Chemical composition, antinociceptive and free radical-scavenging activities of geopropolis from Melipona subnitida Ducke (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

Tania Maria Sarmento Silva, Silvana Alves De Souza, Thays Lima Matos Freire Dias, Telma Maria Guedes Silva, Rosangela Alves Falcão, Magna Suzana Alexandre Moreira, Eva Monica Sarmento Silva, Celso Amorim Camara

560-565
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Short Note

Oxytrigona tataira (Smith) (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) as a collector of honeydew from Erechtia carinata (Funkhouser) (Hemiptera: Membracidae) on Caryocar brasiliense Cambessèdes (Malpighiales: Caryocaraceae) in the Brazilian Savanna

Fabrício Hiroiuki Oda, Andressa Figueiredo de Oliveira, Camila Aoki

566-569
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A scientific note on the presence of functional tibia for pollen transportation in the robber bee Lestrimelitta limao Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

Lucas Garcia von Zuben, Túlio Marcos Nunes

570-572
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