Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Meliponini) of French Guiana

Pauly, Alain; Pedro, Silvia R. M.; Rasmussen, Claus; Roubik, David W.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-4960-7_5

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“…Except for a few families that recently benefited from a regional checklist (e.g. Heiss and Moragues 2009 , Faynel 2010 , Brûlé 2011 , Pauly et al 2013 ) and some global species databases (e.g. Tavakilian and Chevillotte 2012 ), no list of species was available for French Guiana.…”

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Insects of French Guiana: a baseline for diversity and taxonomic effort

Brûlé¹,

Touroult²

2014

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This paper analyzes the first checklist of insects from French Guiana. Compiled by a group of 70 experts based on published records, it comprises about 15 100 valid species names belonging to 20 orders and 322 families. Currently, about 17% of the species are only known from French Guiana or from the Guiana Shield region. Since Linné, the average rate of description has been 59 species per year, which has been increasing in the last 10 years. Based on a sample of recent taxonomic and faunistic papers covering 736 new species for French Guiana, 46% of the species came from new country records, the rest from new species descriptions. The rate of faunistic progress (new species or new records) is about 180 species per year over the last five years. Sixty-five percent of these faunal records came from non-professional entomologists and 74% of the holotypes of new species were collected by amateur entomologists. A rough extrapolation, using two different methods, provides a likely estimate of around 100 000 species, the most conservative estimate being 67 000 species and the highest 184 000. Therefore, an estimated 80% of the species remain to be recorded and, in a best-case scenario, at least 270 years would be needed to complete the biotic inventory, at the current rate of species descriptions and distribution records. Although no order is exhaustively inventoried, the most in need of study are Diptera, Hymenoptera, Hemiptera and Trichoptera; and in absolute numbers, Coleoptera. These results and the fundamental role of non-professional entomologists in collecting and describing new species are discussed.

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Insects of French Guiana: a baseline for diversity and taxonomic effort

Brûlé¹,

Touroult²

2014

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“…In the world, stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponinae) are distributed in tropical and subtropical areas (Pauly et al 2013). About fifty species of stingless bees were recorded (Sakagami 1971).…”

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Pollination by Three Species of Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Meliponini) Increase Seed Set of Mustard (Brassica rapa L.: Brassicaceae)

Asmini

Atmowidi

Kahono³

2022

HAYATI J Biosci

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Pollination and fertilization are critical factors in horticultural cultivation to increase seed production. In this study, we measured the visiting activity and pollination of three species of stingless bees, i.e., Tetragonula laeviceps, Lepidotrigona terminata, and Heterotrigona itama in mustard (Brassica rapa). Visiting activity of stingless bees were observed in mustard plants caged by an insect screen. The observations were done visually per hour, starting from 07:00 until 16:00, using the focal sampling method. The visiting activities observed were flower handling time, foraging rate, and total visit per plant. We also measured the pollen load of each stingless bee species. Results showed the highest foraging rate occurred in H. itama (28.38 flowers/5 minutes), followed by T. laeviceps (27.88 flowers/5 minutes), and L. terminata (27.85 flowers/5 minutes), respectively. The longest flower handling time was found in H. itama (40.15 seconds), followed by T. laeviceps (35.25 seconds), and H. terminata (34.84 seconds). Whereas, the highest total visiting time occurred in H. itama (40.10 minutes), followed by T. laeviceps (37.47 minutes), and L. terminata (36.76 minutes). Heterotrigona itama has a highest pollen load (36,650 pollen grains), followed by L. terminata (26,940 pollen grains), and T. laeviceps (9,700 pollen grains), respectively. Pollination by the stingless bees increase 27-40% the number of pods per plant, 32-72% the number of seeds per pod, 32-54% of seed weight per pod, and 18-36% of seed germination of mustard.

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100 Species of Meliponines (Apidae: Meliponini) in a Parcel of Western Amazonian Forest at Yasuní Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador

Roubik

2018

Pot-Pollen in Stingless Bee Melittology

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Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Meliponini) of French Guiana

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

Insects of French Guiana: a baseline for diversity and taxonomic effort

Insects of French Guiana: a baseline for diversity and taxonomic effort

Pollination by Three Species of Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Meliponini) Increase Seed Set of Mustard (Brassica rapa L.: Brassicaceae)

100 Species of Meliponines (Apidae: Meliponini) in a Parcel of Western Amazonian Forest at Yasuní Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador

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