Diagnostics of wild stingless bees from northeast India Bui M*, Singh H K, Aleminla A O, Chauhan Avinash, Behere G T1 Department of Entomology, School of Agricultural Sciences and Rural Development 1Division of Crop Protection, ICAR Research Complex for North East Hill Region, Umiam, Meghalaya *Email: malar2uads@gmail.com (corresponding author)
Online published on 21 July, 2020. Abstract This study is on the identification of wild stingless bee species by traditional and molecular taxonomy. Samples were collected from the previously tagged stingless bee hives at Medziphema, Nagaland and Upper Sabansari, Arunachal Pradesh. Laboratory analysis for taxonomic and molecular studies was carried out during 2016–2018 in the Insect Molecular Laboratory, Division of Crop Protection, ICAR Research Complex for North East Hill Region, Umiam, Meghalaya. Two genera were identified i.e. stingless bee colonies collected from Arunachal Pradesh identified as Lepidotrigona arcifera and three specimens from SASRD, Nagaland were identified as Tetragonula sp. I (Black SASRD and white SASRD) and Tetragonula sp.II (underground SASRD). The present study has generated molecular data for the first time for Lepidotrigona arcifera. Top Keywords Lepidotrigona, Tetragonula, morphology, L. arcifera, DNA barcoding, mtCo1, Wolbachia sequencing, diagnosotics, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, differences. Top |