Heller's Stingless Bee

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Partamona helleri, the Heller's stingless bee, is a species of stingless bee from Brazil. It is an aggressive species of bee, when threatened it coils around the victim's hair and fur, in addition to nibbling the skin with its mandibles. Distribution It occurs in the neotropical region of Brazil, from the south region to the northeast region in the states of Bahia, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Sergipe and São Paulo.

Partamona es un género de himenópteros apócritos de la familia Apidae. Schwarz en 1938 describió el género y 33 especies (Pedro y Camargo 2003). La distribución geográfica es Sonora, Chihuahua y San Luis Potosí, en México, Mato Grosso, en Brasil y este de Perú.