VARIABILITY of FOOD STORES of TETRAGONISCA FIEBRIGI (SCHWARZ) (“RUBITA” OR “RUBITO”) (APIDAE, MELIPONINI) from the ARGENTINE CHACO BASED on POLLEN ANALYSIS

Vossler, Favio Gerardo; Fagúndez, Guillermina Andrea; Blettler, Diego César

doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v61i4.449-460

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“…En este último aspecto, en la provincia fitogeográfica Chaqueña (Cabrera, 1971), pueden citarse los trabajos sobre visitas florales de Geotrigona argentina Camargo & Moure, Lestrimelitta chacoana Roig Alsina, Melipona orbignyi (Guérin), Plebeia catamarcensis (Holmberg), P. molesta (Puls), Tetragonisca fiebrigi Schwarz y Scaptotrigona jujuyensis Schrottky (Vossler, 2012), como también el examen polínico de las mieles, reservas de polen y cargas corbiculares de G. argentina, S. jujuyensis y T. fiebrigi (Vossler et al, 2010(Vossler et al, , 2014Basilio et al, 2013;Vossler, 2015). En la provincia fitogeográfica de las Yungas, las investigaciones sobre esta temática son aún incipientes, encontrándose como único registro el examen de las mieles de T. angustula (Flores & Sánchez, 2010).…”

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Recursos tróficos utilizados por Plebeia intermedia (Apidae, Meliponini) en la localidad de Baritú, Salta, Argentina. Caracterización botánica de sus mieles

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Hilgert

2015

Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot.

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Con la finalidad de conocer los recursos tróficos utilizados por Plebeia intermedia, una melipona de uso frecuente en la localidad de Baritú (22° 28’ 54,1” S; 64° 45’ 39,4” O; 1546 msnm), se efectuó el análisis polínico de diez muestras de miel colectadas en septiembre y octubre de 2011 y enero de 2012. Los exámenes cualitativos revelaron una cierta especialización de estas abejas por utilizar plantas nativas, de hábito arbóreo y con flores reunidas en inflorescencias abundantes (floraciones en masa). Los tipos polínicos dominantes presentes en las mieles monoflorales corresponden a las especies arbóreas Allophylus edulis (Sapindaceae), Blepharocalyx salicifolius (Myrtaceae) y Myrcianthes pseudomato (Myrtaceae), seguidos por Handroanthus ochraceus (Bignoniaceae), Ilex argentina (Aquifoliaceae), Parapiptadenia excelsa (Leguminosae) y Sambucus peruviana (Adoxaceae). Otros tipos polínicos observados en las muestras, con clases de frecuencia de menor importancia o secundario, fueron Eupatorium (Compositae), Senecio (Compositae), Paullinia (Sapindaceae) y pólenes de las familias Boraginaceae y Rhamnaceae. Los análisis efectuados en las mieles de Plebeia intermedia y los resultados obtenidos en este estudio, constituyen los primeros datos sobre los recursos tróficos utilizados por esta especie de melipona en el período primavera - verano

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Recursos tróficos utilizados por Plebeia intermedia (Apidae, Meliponini) en la localidad de Baritú, Salta, Argentina. Caracterización botánica de sus mieles

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Hilgert

2015

Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot.

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“…It is surprising that pollen showing the highest protein content (>26%) belonged to highly nectariferous plants well represented in meliponine and Apis honey in this region such as Prosopis, Maytenus, and Ziziphus [39,[41][42][43][44][45]. Studies on protein content of pollen loads and pollen analysis of honey carried out in other semiarid areas also show this tendency, as seen in Table III of [35] and Table II of [46] for Condalia, Brassicaceae and Prosopis, in Table III of [36], and in Table II of [47] for Adesmia, Rosaceae, Trifolium, Melilotus, Schinus, and Brassicaceae.…”

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Broad Protein Spectrum in Stored Pollen of Three Stingless Bees from the Chaco Dry Forest in South America (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) and Its Ecological Implications

Vossler

2015

Psyche: A Journal of Entomology

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Protein content of pollen stored by three meliponine species was variable from 9.78% (less than half the value considered as optimal to brood development in Apis mellifera) in type Capparis tweediana-C. speciosa to more than 26% in type Maytenus vitis-idaea and some Prosopis samples. This pollen of low protein value was occasionally foraged (only six out of 75 masses analyzed of G. argentina, but none in 86 masses of T. fiebrigi or in ten of M. orbignyi). However, it is likely that amino acid deficiencies of certain pollens are compensated by randomly foraging on a broad spectrum of pollen plants. The large amounts of pollen stored in their nests might also be important in compensating these deficiencies. The only sample studied for M. orbignyi showed a protein value greater than the one required for A. mellifera and was dominated by types Acacia praecox and Prosopis. As this species also prefers Solanum and other protein-rich pollen, more samples would need to be analyzed to establish whether protein requirements are high for this Melipona species. Pollen showing the highest protein content (>26%) belonged to highly nectariferous plants well represented in meliponine and Apis honey such as Prosopis, Maytenus, and Ziziphus.

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“…2000 species) is recorded as having nectarless flowers with only pollen rewards in poricidal anthers (Vogel 1978;Symon 1979); however, it was found in pure honey samples of M. orbignyi (nest 1) and other Melipona in the Neotropics (Kleinert-Giovannini and Imperatriz-Fonseca 1987;Wilms and Wiechers 1997;Obregón and Nates-Parra 2014). Although the other meliponine genera are capable of robbing residual pollen grains found in Solanum petals and anther tips after being foraged by vibratile bees (Bezerra and Machado 2003), Solanum was not recorded in any type of provision of the non-buzzing bees Geotrigona and Tetragonisca from the Chaco dry forest (Vossler et al 2010(Vossler et al , 2014Vossler 2013;Vossler, submitted ). However, this pollen type has been recorded abundantly (> 10%) in a few honey samples of the nonbuzzing bee Apis mellifera (Cabrera 2006;Caccavari and Fagúndez 2010).…”

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“…Another method includes the ranking of the total harvested pollen volume (Villanueva-Gutiérrez and Roubik 2004). Plant resources foraged by bees and stored in nests have also successfully been estimated by indices of diversity and evenness (Kleinert-Giovannini and Imperatriz-Fonseca 1987;Cortopassi-Laurino and Ramalho 1988;Kajobe 2006;Cortopassi-Laurino et al 2009;Vossler et al 2010;Hilgert-Moreira et al 2013;Ferreira and Absy 2015) and multivariate methods (Ramalho et al 2007;Rech and Absy 2011;Vossler 2013, submitted ;Vossler et al 2014).…”

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Pollen diet assessment and flower association in Melipona orbignyi and recommendations on management and conservation of stingless bees in the Chaco dry forest of South America

Vossler

2019

Apidologie

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Management and conservation of wild pollinators in forests of the Chaco region of South America is of great interest nowadays as they are pollen vectors that improve the reproductive success of many forest species which are at risk due mainly to forest patch isolation and degradation by human activities. The assessment of the diet of the stingless bee Melipona orbignyi was carried out by comparing different calculations from palynological data being the index of relative importance (IRI) the most complete, objective, and here recommended. This index showed that the order of the four most important pollen resources was Prosopis (IRI = 3354), Albizia inundata (1999), Cynophalla retusa (921), and Solanum type 2 (693), and the value of importance of species (SI) calculated for honey resources showed that they were type Maytenus (SI = 20.79), Prosopis (18.73), Cynophalla retusa (6.72), and Ziziphus mistol (3.32). Three flower types predominated in pollen and nectar provisions: brush flowers, solanoid flowers with poricidal anthers, and generalized small pale flowers, being the former two associated to buzzing. The abundance of the nectarless Solanum in honey samples is discussed. Good forest management practices for pollinator conservation native to the Chaco forest should include the keeping of undisturbed forest patches for nesting and foraging while the surrounding forest resources are managed in a sustainable way. Furthermore, because some threatened plants important for the M. orbignyi diet require gene flow to maintain healthy populations, short distances among the forest patches are needed, a fact that also helps to avoid genetic drift in Melipona colonies. The rational rearing of Melipona orbignyi would be a good practice to be implemented to promote pollination of threatened tree and shrub individuals isolated by forest fragmentation.

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VARIABILITY of FOOD STORES of TETRAGONISCA FIEBRIGI (SCHWARZ) (“RUBITA” OR “RUBITO”) (APIDAE, MELIPONINI) from the ARGENTINE CHACO BASED on POLLEN ANALYSIS

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References 19 publications

Recursos tróficos utilizados por Plebeia intermedia (Apidae, Meliponini) en la localidad de Baritú, Salta, Argentina. Caracterización botánica de sus mieles

Recursos tróficos utilizados por Plebeia intermedia (Apidae, Meliponini) en la localidad de Baritú, Salta, Argentina. Caracterización botánica de sus mieles

Broad Protein Spectrum in Stored Pollen of Three Stingless Bees from the Chaco Dry Forest in South America (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) and Its Ecological Implications

Pollen diet assessment and flower association in Melipona orbignyi and recommendations on management and conservation of stingless bees in the Chaco dry forest of South America

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