Distribution patterns of species of the Meliponini (hymenoptera : apoidea : apidae) tribe in Mexico

Abstract

Based on the comparison of 43 individual tracks, distributional patterns of Meliponini in Mexico were analyzed by panbiogeographic analysis. Four generalized tracks and thirteen nodes were found. Three generalized tracks form a Neotropical component that runs along the Coast of the Pacific or the Coast of the Gulf and is unified in the north of Chiapas, where it branches to the south towards Central America and to the northeast through the Yucatan Peninsula. It occupies eight biogeographic provinces: Mexican Pacific Coast, Transmexican Volcanic Belt, Balsas Basin, Sierra Madre del Sur Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexican Gulf Chiapas and Yucatan Peninsula. The generalized tracks and nodes coincide with others previously recognized for other taxa.