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Trigona is one of the largest genera of stingless bees, comprising about 32 species, [1] exclusively occurring in the New World, and formerly including many more subgenera than the present assemblage; many of these former subgenera have been elevated to generic status.
Vulture bees are reddish-brown in colour, featuring only a few lighter hairs on their thorax, and range in length from 8–22 millimetres (0.31–0.87 in). [1] As with many types of stingless bee, vulture bees have strong, powerful mandibles, which are used to tear off flesh.
[1] [2] [3] The term derives from Greek nekros, meaning 'dead', and phagein, meaning 'to eat'. [1] Many hundreds of necrophagous species have been identified including invertebrates in the insect , [ 2 ] malacostracan [ 4 ] and gastropod [ 5 ] classes and vertebrates such as vultures , hyenas , quolls and wolves .
Trigonalidae is a family of parasitic wasps in the suborder Apocrita.They are the only living members of the superfamily Trigonaloidea.Trigonalidae are divided into 2 subfamilies; Orthogonalinae and Trigonalinae.
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.
Tetragonisca angustula is an exceptionally small bee, about 4–5 mm. [7] Along with all other bees in the tribe Meliponini, it is stingless and has a reduced wing venation and penicilla (bristles on the leg). [5] The subspecies T. angustula fiebrigi has a light yellow mesepisternum, while T. angustula angustula has black. [2]
Whether they were war captives or human sacrifices is unclear, but the evidence indicates that their corpses were spit-roasted whole and then consumed. [ 26 ] At Fontbrégoua Cave in southeastern France, the remains of six people who lived about 7,000 years ago were found (two children, one adolescent, and three adults), in addition to animal ...
The Indian stingless bee or dammar bee, Tetragonula iridipennis, is a species of bee belonging to the family Apidae, subfamily Apinae.It was first described by Frederick Smith in 1854 who found the species in what is now the island of Sri Lanka. [2]