Wing morphometrics indicates the existence of two distinct phenotypic clusters within population of Tetragonula iridipennis (Apidae: Meliponini) from India

Francoy, Tiago Maurício; Bonatti, Vanessa; Viraktamath, Shashidhar; Rajankar, B. R.

doi:10.1007/s00040-015-0442-2

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“…The three markers are also in agreement in demonstrating the influence of the physiographic features of the sampling sites in the clustering of groups. The agreement between physiographic features and species differentiation has already been reported by other studies using mtDNA and Population analysis of Mourella caerulea geometric morphometrics of wings (Francisco et al 2008;Francoy et al 2011Francoy et al , 2016Combey et al 2013;Bonatti et al 2014;Lima et al 2014;Hurtado-Burillo et al 2016). This influence may be due to some environmental effects on the heritability of the patterns of wing venation, which can vary between different parts of the wings (Monteiro et al 2002).…”

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Morphological, chemical, and molecular analyses differentiate populations of the subterranean nesting stingless bee Mourella caerulea (Apidae: Meliponini)

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To characterize the populational diversity of Mourella caerulea , an endemic stingless bee from the Pampa biome, we collected workers of the stingless bee Mourella caerulea from 24 colonies of five localities in Southern Brazil and analyzed it using geometric morphometrics of forewings, mtDNA cytochrome oxidase I variability, and cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) chemical analysis. The morphometric analysis discriminated the populations of M. caerulea from different physiographic regions. There was a positive correlation between morphometric and geographic distances. CHC profiles also differentiated the colonies from different localities. We found six particular haplotypes, nucleotide diversity (π) of 0.01631, and a haplotype diversity (Hd) of 0.74. In this sense, the comparison of the population belonging to different physiographic regions indicates that we need to give particular attention to M. caerulea at the moment of creating conservation strategies for South Brazilian Fauna, once it is the only species of this monospecific genus, and its populations are much differentiated from each other. stingless bees / Mourella caerulea / geometric morphometrics / mitochondrial DNA / cuticular hydrocarbons Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (

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Morphological, chemical, and molecular analyses differentiate populations of the subterranean nesting stingless bee Mourella caerulea (Apidae: Meliponini)

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“…Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: tribe Meliponini)also known as native and meliponines, are widely distributed in tropical and some temperate-subtropical regions of the planet. There are more than 600 species of them in different genera, as the most well-known Melipona Olliger (1806), and several other of trigoniforms (Kerr et al, 1996;Francoy et al, 2016).…”

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Honey and bee pollen produced by Meliponini (Apidae) in Alagoas, Brazil: multivariate analysis of physicochemical and antioxidant profiles

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(Dnline) 2 Materials and methods 2.1 Samples of honey and bee pollen from meliponini species Different samples of honey (n = 31) and bee pollen (n = 25), respectively from seven stingless bees species: Melipona asilvai Moure (1971); M. quadrifasciata anthidioides Lepeletier (1836); M. scutellaris Latreille (1811); M. subnitida Ducke (1910); Frieseomelitta varia Lepeletier (1836); Tetragona clavipes Fabricius (1804) and Plebeia sp., and six of such species (all the above mentioned less F. varia) were collected in four private

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“…(). This procedure has also been successfully employed to differentiate stingless bee populations elsewhere (Francoy et al ., , ; Combey et al ., ; Halcroft et al ., ; Galaschi‐Teixeira et al ., ). For example, although P. droryana can be mistaken for four other Plebeia species when the FW shape is not analysed in detail (cross‐validation), the use of CS reduced this number to only one species ( P. emerina ).…”

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“…Here, we extracted 12 landmarks from the FW of six Plebeia species. Nevertheless, historically, entomologists have obtained seven to 20 LMs from bee wings, depending of bold venation and its capacity to clearly discern as much as possible the homologous anatomical marks (Aytekin et al, 2007;Combey et al, 2013;Nunes et al, 2013;Falamarzi et al, 2016;Francoy et al, 2016;Prado-Silva et al, 2018). Further, other insect structures, such as genitalia, mandibles and head, are adequate attributes but are rarely used in GM for evaluating morphological variation in bees (Tatsuta et al, 2018).…”

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Geometric morphometrics of the forewing shape and size discriminate Plebeia species (Hymenoptera: Apidae) nesting in different substrates

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Historically, studies evaluating morphological diversity in stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae: Meliponini) by geometric morphometrics have been used to successfully discriminate taxa and/or populations. Moreover, the use of geometric morphometrics to evaluate phylogenetic morphological variation among stingless bee species has received less attention. Here, we used geometric morphometrics to assess taxonomic discrimination and putative phylogenetic signals for six diapausing stingless bee species (Plebeia) occurring in southern Brazil. In all, 12 landmarks were captured from forewings of P. droryana, P. saiqui, P. emerina, P. remota, P. nigriceps and P. wittmanni. Our data show that the centroid size of the forewings reliably discriminated, for example, between P. droryana and P. emerina from P. saiqui. Moreover, this trait does not have a significant phylogenetic signal. In turn, we found that the overall accuracy in discriminating between the six Plebeia species according to forewing shape was 84%, while the confusion matrix achieved 71%. Interestingly, our discriminant analysis separated Plebeia species nesting in tree cavities from those nesting under granitic rocks. The latter group has second cubital (landmarks = 5, 6, 7), first medial (landmarks = 2, 3, 8) and first submarginal cells (landmarks = 3, 4, 9, 10) that are larger than those of species nesting in trees. The forewing shape showed a strong phylogenetic signal, therefore suggesting that its variation may be due to an evolutionary history shared between Plebeia species studied here rather than to environmental features. This work sheds light on the value of forewing size and shape attributes in discriminating Plebeia species within same genus. We suggest that landmarks separating different taxonomic groups could be incorporated into dichotomous keys to help in identifying clades of complex resolution.

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Wing morphometrics indicates the existence of two distinct phenotypic clusters within population of Tetragonula iridipennis (Apidae: Meliponini) from India

Cited by 21 publications

References 33 publications

Morphological, chemical, and molecular analyses differentiate populations of the subterranean nesting stingless bee Mourella caerulea (Apidae: Meliponini)

Morphological, chemical, and molecular analyses differentiate populations of the subterranean nesting stingless bee Mourella caerulea (Apidae: Meliponini)

Honey and bee pollen produced by Meliponini (Apidae) in Alagoas, Brazil: multivariate analysis of physicochemical and antioxidant profiles

Geometric morphometrics of the forewing shape and size discriminate Plebeia species (Hymenoptera: Apidae) nesting in different substrates

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