Partamona testacea (Klug, 1807)
Melipona testacea
Klug, J. C. F. (1807). Species apiariarum familiae novas, descripsit, generumque characteres adjecit. Magazin des Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde 1: 263-265 [265, plate VII, figure 4] .
Type data: holotype ZMB 430 <F> worker.
Type locality: Brazil.
Trigona (Partamona) sakagamii
Kerr, W. E., Sakagami, S. F., Zucchi, R., Portugal Araújo, V. & Camargo, J. M. F. (1967). Observações sôbre a arquitetura dos ninhos e comportamento de algumas espécies de abelhas sem ferrão das vizinhanças de Manaus, Amazonas (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Atas do Simpósio sôbre a Biota Amazônica 5: 255-309 [286] (nom. nud.) .
Trigona (Partamona) testacea atahualpa
Pedro, S. R. M. & Camargo, J. M. F. (2003). Meliponini neotropicais: o gênero Partamona Schwarz, 1939 (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 47 (Supl. 1): 1-117 [55, 57] (nom. nud., H. F. Schwarz labeled some melanic specimens from Col. Perené, Chanchamayo, Peru (26.VI.1920, Cornell U., lot 569, sub 375, RPSP, STRI, AMNH), as "Trigona (Partamona) testacea var. atahualpa", but never published the name) .
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Bolivia (El Beni, La Paz), Brazil (Acre [Brasiléia, Cruzeiro Do Sul, Feijó, Mâncio Lima, Rio Branco, Sena Madureira, Xapuri], Amapá [Oiapoque, Serra Do Navio], Amazonas [Atalaia Do Norte, Benjamin Constant, Beruri, Juruá, Manaus, Maués, São Paulo De Olivença, Tabatinga, Tapauá], Ceará [Viçosa Do Ceará], Maranhão [Buriticupu, Imperatriz, Nova Olinda Do Maranhão, Vitória Do Mearim], Pará [Anajás, Aveiro, Belterra, Belém, Bragança, Capanema, Igarapé-Açu, Itaituba, Melgaço, Oriximiná, Ourilândia Do Norte, Santarém, Óbidos], Rondônia [Alta Floresta DOeste, Ariquemes, Buritis, Campo Novo De Rondônia, Cerejeiras, Chupinguaia, Costa Marques, Cujubim, Guajará-Mirim, Ji-Paraná, Machadinho DOeste, Mirante Da Serra, Nova Mamoré, Nova União, Ouro Preto Do Oeste, Pimenteiras Do Oeste, Porto Velho, São Miguel Do Guaporé, Vilhena]), Colombia (Amazonas, Cundinamarca, Meta), Ecuador (Napo, Pastaza, Tungurahua), French Guiana, Peru (Cuzco, Huánuco, Junín, Loreto, Ucayali), Suriname
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