{"id":4061,"date":"2026-09-30T20:24:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2026-09-30T20:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:25:02","slug":"a-new-aethina-species-associated-with-african-stingless-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/a-new-aethina-species-associated-with-african-stingless-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Una nueva especie de Aethina asociada con las abejas africanas sin venas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Por primera vez, una nueva especie de <em>Aethina <\/em>Se ha identificado en asociaci\u00f3n con las abejas africanas sin venas <em>Meliponula lendliana<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Aethina tumida<\/em> Se sabe que infesta el nido de abejas mel\u00edferas, abejas borregas y tambi\u00e9n abejas sin veneno. Sin embargo, en el presente caso, el escarabajo encontrado en el nido <em>Meliponula lendliana<\/em> No es <em>Aethina tumida<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En el a\u00f1o 20424 se han encontrado varios espec\u00edmenes de un escarabajo en un nido de esta especie de abejas sin veneno en Kenia. La microscop\u00eda y la an\u00e1lisis molecular han confirmado ahora que este escarabajo no pertenece a <em>Aethina tumida, pero representa una nueva especie del g\u00e9nero Aethina, como recientemente publicado en Apidolgie.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ser\u00e1n necesarias nuevas investigaciones para determinar la clasificaci\u00f3n exacta de este cole\u00f3ptero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ir al art\u00edculo cient\u00edfico <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s13592-026-01307-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aqu\u00ed<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Por primera vez se ha identificado una nueva especie de Aethina asociada a las abejas sin venas africanas Meliponula lendlian.<br \/>\nSe sabe que Aethina tumida infesta los nidos de abejas mel\u00edferas, abejas borinadoras y tambi\u00e9n abejas sin venas. Sin embargo, en el caso presente, el escarabajo encontrado en el nido de Meliponula lendlian no es Aethina tumida.<br \/>\nEn el 20424 se han encontrado varios espec\u00edmenes de un cole\u00f3ptero en un nido de esta especie de abejas sin veneno en Kenia. La microscop\u00eda y la an\u00e1lisis molecular han confirmado ahora que este cole\u00f3ptero no pertenece a Aethina tumida, sino que representa una nueva especie del g\u00e9nero Aethina, como recientemente publicado en Apidolgie.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.2 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For the first time a new species of Aethina has been identified in association with the African stingless bees Meliponula lendlian. Aethina tumida is known to infest nest of honey bees, bumble bees and also stingless bees. 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