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A New Species of Tetragona Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 from the “truncata group” and New Distribution Records of T. truncata Moure, 1971 (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

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Tetragona Lepeletier & Serville is a genus of stingless bees with 14 recognized species occurring from Mexico to Argentina. The genus is characterized by velvety genal area, mesotibial spur present, and propodeal triangle glabrous. Within the genus, the truncata species group (T. truncata Moure and T. atahualpa sp. nov.) is characterized by worker metabasitarsus with posterior angle rounded and the mandible with two short teeth of similar length. Tetragona truncata is reported with new records for Ecuador (Napo and Orellana), Peru (Huánuco, Loreto, and San Martín), and Brazil (Acre [Rio Branco] and Tocantins [Itacá, Lizarda and Palmas]). In addition, T. atahualpa sp. nov. is described as a new species from regions of altitudes above 1,800 m in Colombia (Boyacá), Ecuador (Napo, Zamora-Chinchipe), and Peru (Pasco). We illustrate and discuss the identification of these two species.

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Acknowledgments

To all the institutions that lent the specimens studied; to each curator who allowed this study to be carried out (Claus Rasmussen (CRC), Alex Pazmino (INABIO), INPA collection, Orlando Silveira (MPEG), Gerardo Lamas (MUSM), Kelli Ramos and Carlos Brandão (MZSP), David Notton and Gevin Broad (NHMUK), Diego Guevara (QCAZ), Eduardo Almeida (RPSP), Favízia Oliveira (UFBA), Weyder Santana (UFV), Fernando Fernández (UNAL) and Antonio Aguiar (UNB)). We thank the Invertebrate Collection of INPA for allowing the use of photographic equipment used in this study.

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DSN acknowledges the support of Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Amazonas (IFAM) and Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (PPG-ENT). This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brazil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001, and FAPEAM-Programa POSGRAD.

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  1. Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Amazonas, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, AM, Brasil

    D S Nogueira

  2. Programa de Pós Graduação em Entomologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM, Brasil

    D S Nogueira

  3. Dept of Agroecology, Aarhus Univ, Aarhus, Denmark

    C Rasmussen

  4. Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM, Brasil

    M L Oliveira

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by DSN and CR. The first draft of the manuscript was written by DSN and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. Supervision was provided by MLO. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Nogueira, D.S., Rasmussen, C. & Oliveira, M.L. A New Species of Tetragona Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 from the “truncata group” and New Distribution Records of T. truncata Moure, 1971 (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Neotrop Entomol 50, 68–77 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-020-00822-6

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