Checklist of orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of “Lago do Silêncio” Area, Boca do Acre, Amazonas, Brazil

Danielle Storck-Tonon; Marilene Silva; Elder Morato

doi:10.15560/7.5.648

Check List 7(5): 648-651, doi: 10.15560/7.5.648

Checklist of orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of “Lago do Silêncio” Area, Boca do Acre, Amazonas, Brazil

Danielle Storck-Tonon, Marilene Vasconcelos Silva, Elder Ferreira Morato

Corresponding author: Danielle Storck-Tonon ( danistorck@yahoo.com.br )

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Storck-Tonon D, Silva M, Morato E (2016) Checklist of orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of “Lago do Silêncio” Area, Boca do Acre, Amazonas, Brazil. Check List 7(5): 648-651. https://doi.org/10.15560/7.5.648

Abstract

This study presents a list of euglossine-bee species collected in the Lago do Silêncio region, municipality of Boca do Acre, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, southwestern Amazonia. Euglossine males were attracted to odoriferous baits on December 3 and 4, 2004. A total of 234 individuals belonging to four genera and 25 species were collected. Despite the small sampling effort, the local euglossine fauna is abundant and rich, when compared to those of other areas in the Brazilian Amazonia where higher sampling efforts were performed. Therefore, further studies in the region can be important for improving our knowledge of the bees in the Amazon region.

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