Trigona is the largest genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of stingless bee

Stingless bee

Stingless bees, sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees, comprising the tribe Meliponini . They belong in the family Apidae, and are closely related to common honey bees, carpenter bees, orchid bees and bumblebees...

s, formerly including many more subgenera than the present assemblage; many of these former subgenera have been elevated to generic status. There are approximately 150 species presently included in the genus, in 11 subgenera. They differ from those groups now excluded in only minor structural details, primarily of the hind leg.

Range

Trigona species occur throughout the Neotropical region, and also throughout the Indo-Australian region; as presently defined, no members of the genus occur in Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

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Selected species

• Trigona barrocoloralensis
• Trigona branneri -- Mato Grosso (BR)
• Trigona carbonaria
  Trigona carbonaria
  Trigona carbonaria is a stingless bee endemic to Australia. Their common name is Sugarbag bee. The bee is known to pollinate the orchids Dendrobium lichenastrum, D. toressae, and D. speciosum. It has been identified as an insect that collects pollen from the cycad, Cycas media.T. carbonaria forms...
  
  -- Queensland (AU)
• Trigona chanchamayoensis -- Mato Grosso (BR)
• Trigona collina
  Trigona collina
  Trigona collina is a one of the stingless bee species with reported nesting sites in Thailand.-External links:*, Hymenoptera collection of the Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana**...
  
  Thailand
• Trigona fuscipennis
• Trigona hockingsi -- (AU)
• Trigona hyalinata -- Mato Grosso (BR)
• Trigona minangkabau
• Trigona recursa -- Mato Grosso (BR)
• Trigona spinipes
  Trigona spinipes
  Trigona spinipes is a species of stingless bee. It occurs in Brazil, where it is called arapuá, irapuá or abelha-cachorro . The species name means "spiny feet" in Latin.-Habits:...
  
  -- arapuá (BR)