Tetragona Lepeletier & Serville, 1828
Tetragona
Lepeletier, A. L. M. & Serville, A. (1828). [Articles] pp. 345-832 in M. Diderot et al. (ed.) Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes, vol. 10, P. A. Latreille. Paris: Agasse [710] (first introduced as a subgenus of Trigona Jurine, 1807) .
Type species: Trigona elongata Lepeletier & Serville, 1828
( = Centris clavipes Fabricius)
by original designation.
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Mexico (Chiapas, Tabasco); Neotropical Region: Bolivia (Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando), Brazil (Acre [Jordão, Rio Branco], Amapá [Macapá, Mazagão, Oiapoque], Amazonas [Barcelos, Benjamin Constant, Careiro, Itacoatiara, Japurá, Manacapuru, Manaquiri, Manaus, Parintins, Santo Antônio Do Içá, Tabatinga, Tefé], Bahia, Ceará [Capistrano], Espírito Santo, Goiás [Aragarças, Goiás, Iporá, Jataí], Maranhão [Alcântara, Buriticupu, Carutapera, Chapadinha, São Luís, Vitória Do Mearim], Mato Grosso [Campo Novo Do Parecis, Chapada Dos Guimarães, Cuiabá, Cáceres, Juína, Nova Ubiratã, Nova Xavantina, Ribeirão Cascalheira], Mato Grosso do Sul [Bodoquena, Bonito, Campo Grande, Porto Murtinho], Minas Gerais [Araguari, Cataguases, Paraopeba, Pirapora, Ponte Nova, Uberlândia, Viçosa], Paraná, Pará [Almeirim, Anajás, Aveiro, Belém, Bragança, Conceição Do Araguaia, Cumaru Do Norte, Curuá, Faro, Itaituba, Monte Alegre, Oriximiná, Santarém, Óbidos], Piauí, Rio Grande do Sul [Alpestre, Planalto], Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia [Mirante Da Serra, Vilhena], Santa Catarina, São Paulo [Bauru, Cajuru, Corumbataí, Cosmópolis, Franca, Monte Alegre Do Sul, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo], Tocantins [Darcinópolis, Esperantina, Fátima, Gurupi, Itacajá, Lizarda, Palmas]), Colombia (Boyaca, Caquetá, Cundinamarca, Guainía, Guaviare, Magdalena, Meta, Santander, Valle del Cauca), Costa Rica (Alajuela, Guanacaste, Heredia, Limón, Puntarenas), Ecuador (Napo, Zamora Chinchipe), French Guiana (Kourou, Sinnamary), Guatemala (Izabal), Guyana (Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Potaro-Siparuni, Upper Demerara-Berbice, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo), Honduras (Cortés), Panama (Colón, Darién, Panamá), Panama Canal Zone, Paraguay (Alto Paraná), Peru (Cuzco, Huánuco, Loreto, Madre de Dios, Pasco, San Martín), Suriname (Marowijne, Wanica), Uruguay, Venezuela (Mérida)
References
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