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Tetragonula iridipennis : ウィキペディア英語版 | Tetragonula iridipennis
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.〔 Many older references erroneously placed this species in ''Melipona'', an unrelated genus from the New World,〔Rahman, Khan A. S. Singh. 1940. Beekeeping in India. Indian Farming 1: 10-17〕 and until recently it was placed in ''Trigona'' therefore, it is often still mistakenly referred to as ''Trigona iridipennis''. For centuries, colonies of ''T. iridipennis'' have been kept in objects such as clay pots so that their highly prized medicinal honey can be utilized.〔 == Taxonomy and phylogenetics == ''Tetragonula iridipennis'' belongs to the complex genus of stingless bees ''Tetragonula'' which contains more than 30 described species from the Indian subcontinent. Until recently, all specimens in the group were treated as a single species. ''Tetragonula iridipennis'' belongs to the smaller ''Iridipennis'' species group which includes four primary species: ''Tetragonula iridipennis, Tetragonula praeterita, Tetragonula ruficornis, and Tetragonula bengalensis.'' These four species were proposed in the 19th century and were poorly characterized. They have since not been directly compared via molecular studies, therefore there is uncertainty about whether they are in fact separate species.
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