Padrões morfológicos na venação alar de espécies de Tetragona Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 do grupo clavipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

Tetragona Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) is a genus of stingless bees widely distributed in Brazil. It has 15 species the Neotropics, from Mexico to Uruguay, nine which are found However, elongata (Lepeletier 1828), known only Southeast region and had been synonymized with clavipes (Fabricius, 1804), was revalidated without any justification. The aim this study test whether morphometrics analysis wings efficient diagnosis genus, addition testing validity revalidation mentioned above. This technique applied by accessing right forewings 660 workers T. clavipes, e quadrangula (Lepeletier, 1836), five Brazilian collections. For geometric morphometric analysis, 12 landmarks were selected. software MorphoJ version 1.6 used do Discriminant Function (1000 replications) Canonical Variation Analysis (CVA). Between elongata, there 100% variance between (canonical variation analysis), suggesting that it may be an indication speciation. Even though revalidated, still overlapped indicates same species. Taxonomic studies needed synonymize them.