Friesella schrottkyi (Friese, 1900)
Common Name: "mirim-preguiça"
Trigona schrottkyi
Friese, H. (1900). Neue arten der Bienengattungen Melipona Ill. Und Trigona Jur. Természetr. Füz. 23: 381-394 [386] .
Type data: syntype whereabouts unknown <F> workers.
Type locality: Jundiaby [sic = Jundiaí, São Paulo], 20.X.1898, Schrottky leg. and São Paulo, Brazil.
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Brazil (Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais [Cataguases, Ponte Nova, Ubá, Viçosa], Paraná [Londrina], São Paulo [Cajuru, Corumbataí, Franca, Itatiba, Jundiaí, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo])
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