Oxytrigona Cockerell, 1917
Common Names: "cacafogo", "cagafogo"
Oxytrigona
Cockerell, T. D. A (1917). New social bees. Psyche 24: 120-128 [124] (first introduced as a subgenus of Trigona Jurine, 1807) .
Type species: Trigona flaveola Cockerell, 1913
by original designation.
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Mexico (Chiapas); Neotropical Region: Bolivia (El Beni, La Paz, Pando, Santa Cruz), Brazil (Acre, Amapá [Oiapoque], Amazonas [Manaus], Bahia [Cruz Das Almas], Ceará [Baturité, Mulungu], Espírito Santo, Maranhão [Carutapera], Mato Grosso [Tangará Da Serra], Mato Grosso do Sul [Bonito, Corumbá], Minas Gerais [Araguari, Caldas, Pirapora], Paraná [Paranaguá], Pará [Cumaru Do Norte, Faro, Oriximiná, Santarém], Rio de Janeiro [Nova Iguaçu], Rondônia [Porto Velho], Santa Catarina [Blumenau, São Francisco Do Sul], São Paulo [Bauru, Cajuru, Presidente Epitácio, Presidente Venceslau, Ribeirão Preto, São Sebastião]), Colombia (Antioquia, Bolívar, Boyaca, Caldas, Chocó, Cundinamarca, César, Huila, Magdalena, Nariño, Santander, Tolima), Costa Rica (Alajuela, Guanacaste, Heredia, Limón, Puntarenas, San José), Ecuador (Esmeraldas, Imbabura, Loja, Napo), El Salvador (San Salvador), French Guiana (Cayenne, Kourou), Guatemala (Chimaltenango, Escuintla, Retalhuleu, Santa Rosa, Suchitepéquez), Guyana (Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Upper Demerara-Berbice), Honduras (Atlántida, Yoro), Mexico, Nicaragua (Chontales), Panama (Chiriquí, Colón, Darién, Panamá, San Blas), Paraguay (Alto Paraná), Peru (Junín), Suriname (Brokopondo), Venezuela (Portuguesa)
References
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Camargo, J. M. F. & Pedro, S. R. M. (1992). Sistemática de Meliponinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae): sobre a polaridade e significado de alguns caracteres morfológicos pp. 45-49 in Cruz Landim, C. & Chaud Netto, J. (ed.) Anais do Encontro Brasileiro de Biologia de Abelhas e Outros Insetos Sociais. Homenagem aos 70 anos de Warwick Estevam Kerr. São Paulo: Naturalia, número especial, Editora UNESP 283 pp. [48, 49] (taxonomic characters, phylogeny)
Camargo, J. M. F. & Pedro, S. R. M. (1992). Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of the Meliponinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae): a mini-review. Apidologie 23: 509-522 [513, 514] (classification)
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