|Trigona apicalis Smith| Bees are the groups collecting nectar
and pollen from flowers for their larvae. They have elongated
glossa for sucking nectar from flowers and specialized feather-
like hairs for collecting pollen. The honeybee is one of the
most well known species of this group. Bees in tropical Asia
have not been well investigated. A tropical bee reference
database TABR is based on main references related to tropical
bees and treats a taxon (e.g., scientific name of one species,
one genus, or one family) as one record. Each record consists of
11 items, such as taxonomical information (family, genus,
species, synonymy), type information (sex, locality and
depository of the type, source of the original description),
distributional data, reference, and notes. The TABR is managed
by a text database management system SIGMA. TABR is supported by
a Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Result and
a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) from the Japan
Society for the Promotion of Sciences (J