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Proplebeia

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4669865	https://www.gbif.org/species/4669865
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	219899	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=219899

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Apidae : Proplebeia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Apidae : Proplebeia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
order	Hymenoptera	Linnaeus 1758
-	Unicalcarida	Schulmeister et al. 2002
suborder	Vespina
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
-	Aculeata
superfamily	Apoidea	Latreille 1802
-	Anthophila	Latreille 1804
family	Apidae	Latreille 1802
subfamily	Apinae	Latreille 1802
-	Apiti	Latreille 1802
-	Corbiculata	Shuckard 1866
tribe	Meliponini	Lepeletier 1836
genus	Proplebeia	Michener 1982

Scientific Name

Proplebeia Michener, 1982

Name Published In

Sociobiology 7 (1)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Proplebeia	genus	belongs to Meliponini	stated with evidence	Camargo, 2000

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (20%)

First Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. M. F. Camargo. 2000. The Extinct Fauna of Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) in Dominican Amber: Two New Species and Redescription of the Male of Proplebeia dominicana (Wille and Chandler). American Museum Novitates 3293:1-24

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Proplebeia abdita ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Proplebeia dominicana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Proplebeia tantilla ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Proplebeia vetusta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Trigona dominicana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1982	Proplebeia Michener
2000	Proplebeia Camargo
2012	Proplebeia Engel et al.

References

Camargo J. M. F. (2000) The Extinct Fauna of Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) in Dominican Amber: Two New Species and Redescription of the Male of Proplebeia dominicana (Wille and Chandler), American Museum Novitates 3293, 1-24

Engel M. S., Grimaldi D. A., et al (2012) An Exomalopsine bee in early Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Apidae), American Museum Novitates 3758, 1-16

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sociobiology 7 (1) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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