Bibliography for Meliponini

• Adams, P.B., Bartareau, T. & Walker, K.L. 1992. Pollination of Australian orchids by Trigona (Tetragona) Jurine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 19(4): 97-101
• Anderson, D. & Gibbs, A. 1982. Viruses and Australian native bees. Australasian Beekeeper 83: 131-134 [Date published 31/12/1982]
• Barrett, P. 1995. The Immigrant Bees 1788–1898: A Cyclopaedia on the Introduction of European Honey Bees into Australia and New Zealand. Springwood : Peter Barrett 186 pp.
• Barrett, P. 1999. The Immigrant Bees 1788 to 1898. Volume 2. An update on the Introduction of European Honeybees into Australia and New Zealand. Springwood, NSW : P. Barrett 164 pp.
• Bartareau, T. 1993. Pollination of Australian epiphytic orchids by Trigona Jurine bees in North-east Queensland. pp. 85-89 in Harris, W.K. & Grundon, N.J. Proceedings of the Second Australasian Native Orchid Conference and Show 1993. Toowoomba, Qld : Native Orchid Society of Toowoomba 100 pp.
• Bartareau, T. 1994. The reproductive ecology of Dendrobium toressae (Bailey) Dockr., a geographically restricted species in north-east Queensland. Orchadian 11(3): 106-111 [Date published March]
• Bartareau, T. 1995. The pollination of Cymbidium madidum Lindley and C. suave R.Br. by native bees - a case of floral reward deception? Orchadian 11(10): 487-495 [Date published December]
• Bartareau, T. 1996. Foraging behaviour of Trigona carbonaria (Hymenoptera: Apidae) at multiple choice feeding stations. Australian Journal of Zoology 44(2): 143-153
• Bernhardt, P. & Weston, P.H. 1996. The pollination ecology of Persoonia (Proteaceae) in eastern Australia. Telopea 6(4): 775-804
• Cardale, J.C. in Houston, W.W.K. & Maynard, G.V. (eds) 1993. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Hymenoptera: Apoidea. Canberra : AGPS Vol. 10 x, 406 pp.
• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Descriptions and records of bees. I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 216-225 [Date published 31/12/1905]
• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Descriptions and records of bees. III. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 301-308 [Date published 31/12/1905]
• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. New and little-known bees. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 36: 199-249 [Date published 31/12/1910]
• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1911. The bees of the Solomon Islands. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 36: 160-178 [Date published 31/12/1911]
• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. XLII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 9: 220-229 [Date published 31/12/1912]
• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Australian bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 257-279 [Date published 31/12/1922]
• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees from the Australian region. American Museum Novitates 346: 1-18 [Date published 31/12/1929]
• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 199-243 [Date published 31/12/1929]
• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1929. Bees in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9: 298-323 [Date published 31/12/1929]
• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. The bees of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 6: 137-156, 205-236 [Date published 31/12/1930]
• 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
• Disney, R.H.L. & Bartareau, T. 1995. A new species of Dohrniphora (Diptera: Phoridae) associated with a stingless bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Australia. Sociobiology 26(3): 229-239
• 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
• Dollin, A.E., Dollin, L.J. & Sakagami, S.F. 1997. Australian stingless bees of the genus Trigona (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 11: 861-896
• Dollin, L. & Dollin, A. 1983. Honeymooning in far north Queensland with Australian native bees. Australasian Beekeeper 85: 104-107 [Date published 31/12/1983]
• Drumond, P.M, Oldroyd, B.P., Dollin, A.E. & L.J. Dollin 1999. Oviposition behaviour of two Australian stingless bees, Austroplebeia symei Rayment and Austroplebeia australis Friese (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Australian Journal of Entomology 38(3): 234-241
• Drumond, P.M., Oldroyd, B.P. & Osborne, K. 2000. Worker reproduction in Austroplebeia australis Friese (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini). Insectes Sociaux 47: 333-336
• Evans, H.E., Evans, M.A. & Hook, A. 1982. Observations on the nests and prey of Australian Bembix sand wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 71-80 [Date published 31/12/1982]
• Evans, H.E. & Hook, A.W. 1982. Communal nesting in the digger wasp Cerceris australis (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 557-568
• Evans, H.E. & Matthews, R.W. 1973. Systematics and nesting behavior of Australian Bembix sand wasps (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 20: iv, 1-387 [Date published 31/12/1973]
• Fain, A. & Heard, T.A. 1987. Description and life cycle of Cerophagus trigona spec. nov. (Acari, Acaridae), associated with the stingless bee Trigona carbonaria Smith in Australia. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 57: 197-202
• Franck, P., Cameron, E., Good, G., Rasplus, J.-Y. & Oldroyd, B.P. 2004. Nest architecture and genetic differentiation in a species complex of Australian stingless bees. Molecular Ecology 13: 2317-2331
• Franck, P. in Franck, P., Cameron, E., Good, G., Rasplus, J.-Y. & Oldroyd, B.P. 2004. Nest architecture and genetic differentiation in a species complex of Australian stingless bees. Molecular Ecology 13: 2317-2331
• Friese, H. 1908. Hymenoptera. II. Apidae. Nova Guinea. pp. 353-359 pl. XV in Wichmann, A. (ed.). Résultats de L'Expedition Scientifique Néerlandaise á la Nouvelle Guinée en 1903. Leiden : E.J. Brill. [Date published 31/12/1908]
• Friese, H. 1909. Die Bienenfauna von Neu-Guinea. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 7: 179-288 [Date published 31/12/1909]
• Friese, H. 1912. Zur Bienenfauna von Neu-Guinea und Oceania. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 6: 93-96 [Date published 31/12/1912]
• Goebel, R.L. 1986. Australian native bees. Queensland Agricultural Journal 112: 285-286 [Date published 31/12/1986]
• Hawkeswood, T.J. 1983. Pollination and fruit production of Cupaniopsis anacardioides (A. Rich.) Radlkf. (Sapindaceae) at Townsville, North Queensland. 1. Pollination and floral biology. Victorian Naturalist 100: 12-20 [Date published 31/12/1983]
• Heard, T.A. 1988. Propagation of hives of Trigona carbonaria Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 27: 303-304 [Date published 31/12/1988]
• Heard, T.A. & Hendrikz, J.K. 1993. Factors influencing flight activity of colonies of the stingless bee Trigona carbonaria (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 41(4): 343-353
• Hockings, H.J. 1884. Notes on two Australian species of Trigona. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1884: 149-157 [Date published 31/12/1884]
• Inoue, T., Sakagami, S.F., Salmah, S. & Nukmal, N. 1984. Discovery of successful absconding in the stingless bee Trigona (Tetragonula) laeviceps. Journal of Apicultural Research 23: 136-142 [Date published 31/12/1984]
• Inoue, T., Sakagami, S.F., Salmah, S. & Yamane, S. 1984. The process of colony multiplication in the Sumatran stingless bee Trigona (Tetragonula) laeviceps. Biotropica 16: 100-111 [Date published 31/12/1984]
• Levitt, D. 1981. Plants and People: aboriginal uses of plants on Groote Eylandt. Canberra : Institute of Aboriginal Studies 166 pp. [Date published 31/12/1981]
• MacPherson, K. & Rupp, H.M.R. 1936. Further notes on orchid pollination. North Queensland Naturalist 4(43): 25-26 [Date published 31/12/1936]
• McKenzie, E. 1975. Growing up with aborigines. Queensland Naturalist 21: 46-51 [Date published 31/12/1975]
• 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]
• Michener, C.D. 1965. A classification of the bees of the Australian and South Pacific regions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 130: 1-362 [Date published 31/12/1965]
• Michener, C.D. 1974. The Social Behaviour of the Bees. A comparative study. Cambridge : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 404 pp. [Date published 31/12/1974]
• Michener, C.D. 1981. Paint for nest construction. Bee World 62: 34 [Date published 31/12/1981]
• Michener, C.D. 1990. Classification of the Apidae (Hymenoptera). University of Kansas Science Bulletin 54: 75-164 [Date published 31/12/1990]
• Michener, C.D. 2000. The Bees of the World. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press 913 pp.
• Michener, C.D. & Houston, T.F. 1991. Apoidea. pp. 993-1000 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 2 pp. 543-1137.
• Milborrow, B.V., Kennedy, J.M. & Dollin A. 1987. Composition of wax made by the Australian stingless bee Trigona australis. Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 40: 15-25 [Date published 31/12/1987]
• Mocsáry, S. 1898. in Friese, H. Die Trigona-Arten Australiens. Természetrajzi Füzetek 21: 427-431 [Date published 31/12/1898]
• 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]
• Nieh, J.C., Tautz, J., Spaethe, J. & Bartareau, T. 2000. The communication of food location by a primitive stingless bee, Trigona carbonaria. Zoology (Jena) 102: 238-246
• Ornduff, R. 1991. Size classes, reproductive behaviour and insect associates of Cycas media (Cycadaceae) in Australia. Botanical Gazette 152(2): 203-207
• Rasmussen, C. & Cameron, S.A. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of the Old World stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) and the non-monophyly of the large genus Trigona. Systematic Entomology 32: 26–39
• Rayment, T. 1930. New and remarkable bees. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 43: 42-61 [Date published 31/12/1930]
• Rayment, T. 1932. The stingless bees of Australia. 2. The architecture. Victorian Naturalist 48: 203-212 [Date published 31/12/1932]
• 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]
• 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.
• Rayment, T. 1953. The distribution of the bee genus, Trigona. Western Australian Naturalist 4: 22-23 [Date published 31/12/1953]
• Rayment, T. 1961. A tiny bee (Trigona carbonaria) and a very large flower (Telopea). Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1958–59: 96-97 [Date published 31/12/1961]
• Sakagami, S.F. 1978. Tetragonula stingless bees of the Continental Asia and Sri Lanka (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series VI. Zoology 21: 165-247 [Date published 31/12/1978]
• Sakagami, S.F., Inoue, T. & Yamane, S. 1983. Nest architecture and colony composition of the Sumatran stingless bee Trigona laeviceps. Kontyû 51: 100-111 [Date published 31/12/1983]
• Sakagami, S.F., Yamane, S. & Inoue, T. 1983. Oviposition behavior of two southeast Asian stingless bees, Trigona (Tetragonula) laeviceps and T. (T.) pagdeni. Kontyû 51: 441-457 [Date published 31/12/1983]
• Salmah, S., Inoue, T. & Sakagami, S.F. 1984. Relationship between age sequence and pigmentation in the stingless bee Trigona (Tetragonula) laeviceps. Journal of Apicultural Research 23: 55-58 [Date published 31/12/1984]
• Shaw, D.E. & Cantrell, B.K. 1983. A study of the pollination of Alocasia macrorrhiza (L.) G. Don (Araceae) in southeast Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 106: 323-335 [Date published 31/12/1983]
• Slater, A.T. & Calder, D.M. 1988. The pollination biology of Dendrobium speciosum Smith: a case of false advertising? Australian Journal of Botany 36: 145-158 [Date published 31/12/1988]
• Smith, F. 1854. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. London : British Museum pp. 199-465. [Date published 31/12/1854]
• Smith, F. 1863. Exhibitions etc. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 3 1: 171, 174, 181 [Date published 31/12/1863]
• Wagner, A. & Dollin, L. 1982. North Queensland's native bees—the little Aussie battlers. Australasian Beekeeper 84: 70-72 [Date published 31/12/1982]
• Wagner, A. & Dollin, L. 1982. Probing the mysteries of the N.S.W. native bees. Australasian Beekeeper 83: 157-161 [Date published 31/12/1982]
• Wagner, A. & Dollin, L. 1982. Swarming in Australian native bees - help solve the mystery!. Australasian Beekeeper 84: 34-38 [Date published 31/12/1982]
• Wagner, A.E. & Briscoe, D.A. 1983. An absence of enzyme variability within two species of Trigona (Hymenoptera). Heredity 50: 97-103 [Date published 31/12/1983]
• Wallace, H.M. & Trueman, H.J. 1995. Dispersal of Eucalyptus torelliana seeds by the resin-collecting stingless bee, Trigona carbonaria. Oecologia (Berlin) 104(1): 12-16 [Date published September]
• Welch, D. 1995. Beeswax rock art in the Kimberley, Western Australia. Rock Art Research 12(1): 23-28
• White, D., Cribb, B.W. & Heard, T.A. 2001. Flower constancy of the stingless bee Trigona carbonaria Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Australian Journal of Entomology 40(1): 61-64
• Wille, A. 1977. A general review of the fossil stingless bees. Revista de Biología Tropical 25: 43-46 [Date published 31/12/1977]
• Williams, G.A. & Adam, P. 1997. The composition of the bee (Apoidea: Hymenoptera) fauna visiting flowering trees in New South Wales lowland subtropical rainforest remnants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 118: 69-95
• Yamane, S., Heard, T.A. & S.F. Sakagami 1995. Oviposition behavior of the stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponinae) XVI. Trigona (Tetragonula) carbonaria endemic to Australia, with a highly integrated oviposition process. Japanese Journal of Entomology 63(2): 275-296

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