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Australian native bees are a group of bees that play a crucial role in the pollination of native plants. There are over 1,700 species of native bees in Australia, [1] ranging from small solitary bees to the social stingless bees. Native bees are important for native ecosystems, providing pollination services to native plants, and hold value for ...
Austroplebeia is a stingless bee genus in the family Apidae. The genus was erected by Jesus Santiago Moure in 1961. [1] [2] The genus comprises five described species endemic to Australia and New Guinea. [3] Austroplebeia are more closely related to the African stingless bees than rest of the species found in Asia and Australia. [4]
The eusocial stingless bees (Apidae, Apinae, Meliponini) comprise about 374 species. [11] Two genera occur in Australia, with Tetragonula being one of them. [11] The Tetragonula species of Australia were once in the larger genus Trigona, but were moved into a new genus in 2013. [12]
Austroplebeia cassiae is a small eusocial stingless bee first described by Cockerell in 1910 [2] and it is found in Australia (North and Eastern Queensland). [3]
Tetragonula hockingsi is a stingless bee, and thus belongs to the tribe Meliponini, which includes about 500 species. T. hockingsi belongs to the genus Tetragonula.The species is named in honour of Harold J. Hockings, who documented numerous early observations on Australia's stingless bee species, his notes of which were published in 1884.
Stingless bees in the Brisbane, Australia area are inciting turf wars, which have already resulted in numerous drone fatalities and hive takeovers. According to a study in the American Naturalist ...
Austroplebeia australis (previously and originally known as Trigona australis [2] [3]) is a stingless bee species in the tribe Meliponini first validly described by Heinrich Friese in 1898. [4] Within Australia , they are occasionally referred to as bush bees .
The use of stingless bees is referred to as meliponiculture, which is named after bees of the tribe Meliponini such as Melipona quadrifasciata in Brazil. This variation of beekeeping still occurs today. [23] For instance, in Australia, the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria is kept for the production of honey. [24]