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Biology of a nocturnal bee, Megalopta atra (Hymenoptera: Halictidae; Augochlorini), from the Panamanian highlands

Simon M. Tierney Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancón, PanamaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Therany Gonzales‐Ojeda Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Medio Ambiente, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco – Sede Puerto Maldonado Jr. San Martín 451, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru
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William T. Wcislo Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancón, Panama
Pages 1841-1847 | Received 06 Jun 2007, Accepted 06 Apr 2008, Published online: 02 Dec 2010

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L.M. Santos & G.A.R. Melo. (2015) Updating the taxonomy of the bee genus Megalopta (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Augochlorini) including revision of the Brazilian species. Journal of Natural History 49:11-12, pages 575-674.
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Victor H. Gonzalez, Rachel Manweiler, Adam R. Smith, Kennan Oyen, David Cardona & William T. Wcislo. (2023) Low heat tolerance and high desiccation resistance in nocturnal bees and the implications for nocturnal pollination under climate change. Scientific Reports 13:1.
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Yun-Chen Hsieh, Joe Chun-Chia Huang, Wen-Chi Yeh, Chun-Yang Tsai, Chien-Jung Lin & Sheng-Shan Lu. (2023) Male-biased night foraging by bumblebees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus spp.) in Taiwan. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96, pages 949-954.
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Guaraci D. Cordeiro, Rodolfo Liporoni, Carolina A. Caetano, Cristiane Krug, Carlos A. Martínez-Martínez, Herbeson O. J. Martins, Renan K. O. A. Cardoso, Fernanda F. Araujo, Priscila C. S. Araújo, Reisla Oliveira, Clemens Schlindwein, Eric J. Warrant, Stefan Dötterl & Isabel Alves-dos-Santos. (2021) Nocturnal Bees as Crop Pollinators. Agronomy 11:5, pages 1014.
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Victor H. Gonzalez, Timothy Stein, Jonathan D. Amith & Ricardo Ayala. (2014) New record and nest description of the nocturnal sweat bee Megalopta tetewana Gonzalez, Griswold, and Ayala 2010 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) . Pan-Pacific Entomologist 90:1, pages 40-43.
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S. M. Tierney, C. N. Fischer, S. M. Rehan, K. M. Kapheim & W. T. Wcislo. (2013) Frequency of social nesting in the sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Halictidae) does not vary across a rainfall gradient, despite disparity in brood production and body size. Insectes Sociaux 60:2, pages 163-172.
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Terry F Houston & Glynn V Maynard. (2012) An unusual new paracolletine bee, L eioproctus ( O ttocolletes) muelleri subgen. & sp. nov. ( H ymenoptera: C olletidae): with notes on nesting biology and in‐burrow nest guarding by macrocephalic males . Australian Journal of Entomology 51:4, pages 248-257.
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Milagros Dalmazzo & Arturo Roig Alsina. (2012) Nest structure and notes on the social behavior of Augochlora amphitrite (Schrottky) (Hymenoptera, Halictidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 26, pages 17-29.
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Simon M. Tierney, Oris Sanjur, Grethel G. Grajales, Leandro M. Santos, Eldredge Bermingham & William T. Wcislo. (2011) Photic niche invasions: phylogenetic history of the dim-light foraging augochlorine bees (Halictidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279:1729, pages 794-803.
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Jessica Purcell. (2011) Geographic patterns in the distribution of social systems in terrestrial arthropods. Biological Reviews 86:2, pages 475-491.
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Adam R. Smith, Karen M. Kapheim, Sean O'Donnell & William T. Wcislo. (2009) Social competition but not subfertility leads to a division of labour in the facultatively social sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Animal Behaviour 78:5, pages 1043-1050.
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William T. Wcislo & Simon M. Tierney. (2009) Behavioural environments and niche construction: the evolution of dim‐light foraging in bees. Biological Reviews 84:1, pages 19-37.
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