Trigona pallens (Fabricius, 1798) is a animal in the Apidae family, order Hymenoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Trigona pallens (Fabricius, 1798)

Trigona pallens (Fabricius, 1798)

Trigona pallens is a eusocial stingless bee species from Brazil, that uses Solanum stramoniifolium as a host plant.

Family
Genus
Trigona
Order
Hymenoptera
Class
Insecta

About Trigona pallens (Fabricius, 1798)

Trigona pallens (Fabricius, 1798) is called abelha-olho-de-vidro, meaning "glass-eye bee", in Brazil. It is a species of eusocial stingless bee that belongs to the family Apidae and the tribe Meliponini. Solanum stramoniifolium is a known host plant for this bee species.

Photo: (c) Rich Hoyer, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by Rich Hoyer · cc-by-nc-sa

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Hymenoptera Apidae Trigona

More from Apidae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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