Spiny-legged Stingless bee (Trigona spinipes)

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Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Trigona spinipes (Fabricius, 1793)
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Trigona spinipes
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.: (Fabricius, 1793)
Common names: Spiny-legged Stingless bee
Names in other languages (6)
Abeja sin aguijón de patas espinosas, Abelha Cachorro, Abelha-irapuã, Arapuá, Irapuã, medonoska pralesní
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.: Trigona
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.: spinipes
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.: species
Reference species: Trigona spinipes
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 14:15.

Photo of Trigona spinipes (Fabricius, 1793) — Photo: Tiago Lubiana · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 14:15.

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 10 visits the flowers of × has its flowers visited by × 8 more types with data for this species

Flower visit

visits the flowers of 239 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	Actions
Sweet Basil Ocimum basilicum Lamiaceae	visits the flowers of	40	not compared
40 sources · 41 records Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Record contexts (sample): no place published · no date published; no place published · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/225518956 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 27, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/381005074 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 12, 2026 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/381007362 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 12, 2026 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/381008152 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 12, 2026 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/381008924 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 12, 2026 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/381014837 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 12, 2026 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/381016350 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 12, 2026 · Human observation And 32 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. 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.
Araucaria Dombeya Malvaceae	visits the flowers of	22	not compared	Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
22 sources · 22 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/297052824 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 11, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/297052925 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 11, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/298252182 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 15, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/298715165 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 17, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/224252273 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · June 21, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/248602302 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 22, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/285205057 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 29, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/285205266 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 29, 2025 · Human observation And 14 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. 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.
Banana Musa Musaceae	visits the flowers of	15	not compared	Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
15 sources · 27 records Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Record contexts (sample): no place published · no date published; no place published · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197400623 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Jan. 16, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/200603132 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Feb. 20, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/119063384 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 17, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/225710736 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Dec. 26, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/132295042 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 25, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/365951361 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 18, 2026 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/247903950 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 17, 2024 · Human observation And 7 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. 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.
Christ's-plant Euphorbia milii Euphorbiaceae	visits the flowers of	13	not compared
13 sources · 13 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102481598 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Dec. 4, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102883411 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Dec. 8, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/107159130 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Jan. 1, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/210395784 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · April 27, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/16591281 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Sept. 16, 2018 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/142178750 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 19, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148803575 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 27, 2019 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/50842875 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Sept. 30, 2011 · Human observation And 5 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. 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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has its flowers visited by 7 organisms

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented	Actions
Spiny-legged Stingless bee Trigona spinipes Apidae	has its flowers visited by	5	not compared
5 sources · 9 records Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Record contexts (sample): no place published · no date published; no place published · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/306321922 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 14, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/322446531 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 22, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/332029367 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Dec. 25, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/280388411 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 10, 2025 · 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.
Dahlia	has its flowers visited by Refuted	1	no location	Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
1 source · 1 record Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Context: no place published · no date published 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.
Piper Trigla lyra Triglidae	has its flowers visited by Refuted	1	no location
1 source · 1 record Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Context: no place published · no date published 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.
Pleroma	has its flowers visited by Refuted	1	no location	Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
1 source · 2 records Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Record contexts (sample): no place published · no date published; no place published · no date published 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.