Stingless bees from meliponiculture in South Kalimantan, Indonesia

Abstract. Purwanto H, Soesilohadi RCH, Trianto M. 2022. Stingless bees from meliponiculture in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 23: 1254-1266. Kalimantan Island has many species of stingless that are widespread throughout the province. However, their morphology, morphometry, and nest structure characteristics have not been documented comprehensively. This paper described morphological characters, morphometric measurements, entrance, brood cell Ten bee were identified based on features: Tetragonula laeviceps (Smith, 1857), T. fuscobalteata (Cameron, 1908), drescheri (Schwarz, 1939), melanocephala (Gribodo, 1893), biroi (Friese, 1898), Homotrigona apicalis H. canifrons Heterotrigona itama (Cockerell, 1918), Geniotrigona thoracica Lepidotrigona terminata 1878). Principal component analysis was performed to identify grouping characters thus determine diagnostic characters. Furthermore, shape, diameter, length, ornamentation, color entrance arrangement, cells, cells observed. study is first report high variations type opening arrangement for species, which abundant Kalimantan.