Mayan Melipona (Melipona beecheii)

Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Melipona beecheii Bennett, 1831
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Melipona beecheii
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.: Bennett, 1831
Common names: Mayan Melipona
Names in other languages (8)
Abeja de la tierra, Abeja real sin aguijón, Jicota, Jicote, Jicote estrella, Jicote gato, Jicote manso, xunáan kab
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).: Animalia
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.: Arthropoda
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).: Insecta
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).: Hymenoptera
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).: Apidae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.: Melipona
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.: beecheii
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.: species
Reference species: Melipona beecheii
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.: accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.: Not evaluated (NE)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-09 14:02.

Photo of Melipona beecheii Bennett, 1831 — Photo: Jacob Fauvelle · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 14:02.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 2 of 2 eats × visits the flowers of ×

Blocks that do not sit under a navigation concept heading keep the source's own term: no navigation concept has been assigned to them yet.

eats 3 organisms

This term declares that the organism benefits this species.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
Ardisia compressa Primulaceae	eats	2	not compared
2 sources · 2 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/141935385 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Nov. 13, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/87801215 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Dec. 15, 2019 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Roucu Bixa orellana Bixaceae	eats	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/100291555 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Nov. 1, 2021 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Lilypad Begonia Begonia nelumbiifolia Begoniaceae	eats	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/149793549 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Feb. 26, 2023 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Flower visit

visits the flowers of 3 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
Roucu Bixa orellana Bixaceae	visits the flowers of	2	not compared
2 sources · 4 records Vandame R, Mérida J, Sagot P, Madrigal González D, Bedolla García B Y, González-Vanegas P A, Cultid-Medina C A, Barrios J M (2023). Potential host plant records recovered from ECOAB wild bee collection, Mexico. Version 1.10. Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la bio… Published in globalbioticinteractions/ecoab-host-plant Record contexts (sample): Ejido Nueva Costa Rica · Nov. 19, 2009 · Preserved specimen; Ejido Nueva Costa Rica · Nov. 19, 2009 · Preserved specimen https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/100291555 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Nov. 1, 2021 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Ardisia compressa Primulaceae	visits the flowers of	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/87801215 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Dec. 15, 2019 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Tectona grandis Lamiaceae	visits the flowers of	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record Vandame R, Mérida J, Sagot P, Madrigal González D, Bedolla García B Y, González-Vanegas P A, Cultid-Medina C A, Barrios J M (2023). Potential host plant records recovered from ECOAB wild bee collection, Mexico. Version 1.10. Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la bio… Published in globalbioticinteractions/ecoab-host-plant Context: El Bejucal · May 25, 2018 · Preserved specimen A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.