Species Austroplebeia cassiae (Cockerell, 1910)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trigona cassiae Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. New and little-known bees. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 36: 199-249 [Date published 31/12/1910] [247].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH Hym.17.b.1137 worker, Mackay, QLD.
• Trigona symei Rayment, T. 1932. The stingless bees of Australia. 6. The finding of a new species. Victorian Naturalist 49: 104-107 [Date published 31/12/1932] [106].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC worker, N QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dollin, A.E., Dollin, L.J. & Rasmussen, C. 2015. Australian and New Guinean Stingless Bees of the Genus Austroplebeia Moure (Hymenoptera: Apidae)—a revision. Zootaxa 4047(1): 1-73 [54]

Generic Combinations

• Austroplebeia cassiae (Cockerell, 1910). —
  Moure, J.S. 1961. A preliminary supra-specific classification of the Old World meliponine bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Studia Entomologica ns 4: 181-242 [Date published 31/12/1961] [195, 196]
• Austroplebeia symei (Rayment, 1932). —
  Moure, J.S. 1961. A preliminary supra-specific classification of the Old World meliponine bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Studia Entomologica ns 4: 181-242 [Date published 31/12/1961] [197]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore, volant.

Larva: sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Social insects, living in large colonies, with female reproductive and worker castes, nests of wax and resin, flower visiting record: Cassia L. s.lat. [Caesalpiniaceae], Eucalyptus L'Hérit. [Myrtaceae].

General References

da Cunha, R.A. 1994. Estudo fenético supra-especifico de Trigonini do velho mundo (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 38(3/4): 613-626 [623]

Dollin, A.E., Dollin, L.J. & Rasmussen, C. 2015. Australian and New Guinean Stingless Bees of the Genus Austroplebeia Moure (Hymenoptera: Apidae)—a revision. Zootaxa 4047(1): 1-73 [54, figs 1–17, 19–20, 22–25, 27–30, 32–33] (redescribed)

Michener, C.D. 1961. Observations on the nests and behavior of Trigona in Australia and New Guinea (Hymenoptera, Apidae). American Museum Novitates 2026: 1-46 [Date published 31/12/1961] (as synonym of Trigona (Plebeia) australis Friese, 1898)

Michener, C.D. 1990. Classification of the Apidae (Hymenoptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 54: 75-164 [Date published 31/12/1990] (illustration)

Moure, J.S. 1961. A preliminary supra-specific classification of the Old World meliponine bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Studia Entomologica ns 4: 181-242 [Date published 31/12/1961] (generic placement)

Rayment, T. 1932. The stingless bees of Australia. 2. The architecture. Victorian Naturalist 48: 203-212 [Date published 31/12/1932] (biology)

Rayment, T. 1935. A Cluster of Bees. Sixty essays on the life-histories of Australian bees, with specific descriptions of over 100 new species, and an introduction by Professor E.F. Phillips, D.Ph., Cornell University, U.S.A. Sydney : Endeavour Press. 752 pp. (biology)

History of changes