These are Ecuadorian Bees from the Napo Province, they are honey producers, we do not posess any keys refering to this group, so any help will be very appreciated.
They mostly appear to be species of stingless honey bees, Trigona and Melipona perhaps, but like you say, without keys it would be almost impossible to make specific determinations. Good luck.
Yes I think that Blair is right. try to use any identification key related to bees.
Or look at some books like the bees of the world.
regards
That's what I'm saying, I cannot find any key related to this group, so if you cold guide me to someone who has such information, I'll really appreciate it!
Hi Santiago,
Keys of stingless bees of the New World may have to be scraped together from monographs and individual species descriptions. I included a paper that might have some information you are looking for. The references can be quite helpful. All the best and stay safe around those "fire bees".
Hola:
Como dice Mr. Sampson, la literatura esta muy dispersa a nivel de especie.
La segunda abeja, por su coloracion oscura, por sus alas claras y su tamaño grande en comparacion con otras Meliponas es mas o menos facil: Estamos entre M. fuliginosa o M. titania del grupo fuliginosa.
La otra es mas dificil y tocaria ver los ejemplares y compararlos con nuestra coleccion de referencia, pero de lejos parece una especie de Melipona del grupo eburnea aunque la coloracion de su pilosidad y de su integumento es bastante clara. Yo diria que la taxonomia de muchos grupos de meliponinos aun esta en construccion. Una opinion mucho mas confiable que la mia la podrias obtener de la Profesora Guimar Nates de la UN-Colombia, del Dr. Ricardo Ayala de la UNAM o del Dr. Victor Hugo Gonzales de la U. Kansas.
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