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Spiny-legged Stingless bee

Trigona spinipes

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) kairozz1, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Brazil.January 209, February 160, March 178, April 337, May 259, June 238, July 225, August 248, September 265, October 184, November 210, December 194.
Brazil2,707
Sao Paulo910
Distrito Federal343
Minas Gerais280
Rio de Jeneiro209
Parana184
Pernambuco120
Espirito Santo106
Rio Grande do Sul101
Santa Catarina100

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • EusocialLives in colonies with division of labor and cooperative brood careFrom its classification

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • StingingCan deliver a painful stingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyHoney Bees, Bumble Bees, and Allies · Apidae
GenusTrigona

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Spiny-legged Stingless bee with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.