Observations on gynes and drones around nuptial flights in the stingless bees Tetragonisca angustula and Melipona beecheii (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae)

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Issue		Apidologie Volume 31, Number 1, January-Febuary 2000


Page(s)		47 - 54
DOI		10.1051/apido:2000105

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