Ptilotrigona occidentalis (Schulz, 1904)
Common Name: "abeja-de-brea"
Trigona heideri occidentalis
Schulz, W. A. (1904). Hymenopteren Amazoniens. Sitzungsber. König. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Mathem.-physik. Kl 33 (1903): 757-832 [821] .
Type data: syntype ZSM <F> workers (3).
Type locality: Nordwest-Ecuador, bei Cachavi [probably San Javier de Cachabí], 500 Fuss, XI-XII, 1896, W.F.H. Rosemberg.
Trigona suffragata
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1922). Bees in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 60 (18): 1-20 [9] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: holotype USNM 24876 <F> worker , paratype USNM <F> workers (4).
Type locality: Colombia S. America, Letter Mar. 7-21, Harry Sargent.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Moure, J. S. (1963). Sôbre a identidade dos meliponinos descritos por Spinola em 1853 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). An. Acad. Bras. Cienc. (Rio de Janeiro) 35 (2): 257-269 [263]
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Colombia (Chocó, Nariño, Valle del Cauca), Costa Rica (Puntarenas), Ecuador (Esmeraldas), Panama (Darién)
References
Camargo, J. M. F., Garcia, M. V. B., Júnior, E. R. Q. & Castrillon, A. (1992). Notas prévias sobre a bionomia de Ptilotrigona lurida (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae): associação de leveduras em pólen estocado. Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio Goeldi, sér. Zool. 8 (2): 391-395 [391] (as Ptilotrigona lurida occidentalis, geographic range)
Camargo, J. M. F. & Pedro, S. R. M. (2004). Meliponini neotropicais: o gênero Ptilotrigona Moure (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 48 (3): 353-377 [353-361, 369, 371, 373-375] (taxonomic revision, key, synonymy, diagnosis, phylogeny, geographic range, folk names: "abeja de brea", citation, nesting site: hollow of tree trunks, nest characteristics, citation, pitch, defense behavior, aggressiveness, figures: male, worker)
Cockerell, T. D. A (1920). Some neotropical meliponid bees. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 42: 459-468 [463] (as Trigona heideri occidentalis, taxonomic note)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1922). Bees in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 60 (18): 1-20 [9] (as Trigona suffragata, description, taxonomic note)
Ducke, A. (1916). Enumeração dos Hymenopteros colligidos pela Comissão e Revisão das espécies de abelhas do Brasil. Comm. Lin. Teleg. Estr. M. Gr. ao Amazonas 35: 3-171 [68, 70] (as Melipona heideri occidentalis, taxonomy)
Ducke, A. (1925). Die stachellosen Bienen (Melipona) Brasiliens, Nach morphologischen und ethologischen Merkmalen geordnet. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Geogr. Biol. Tiere 49: 335-448 [382, 383] (as Melipona heideri occidentalis, taxonomic note)
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Moure, J. S. (1963). Sôbre a identidade dos meliponinos descritos por Spinola em 1853 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). An. Acad. Bras. Cienc. (Rio de Janeiro) 35 (2): 257-269 [263] (as Trigona (Ptilotrigona) lurida occidentalis, synonymy: Trigona suffragata as junior synonym)
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Parra, G. (1990). Bionomia de las abejas sin aguijon (Apidae Meliponinae) del Occidente Colombiano. Cespedesia 57-58: 77-116 [82, 83, 85, 86, 92, 95, 98, 100, 102] (as Trigona (Tetragona) heideri occidentalis, nest characteristics, nesting site: tree trunk, defense behavior, geographic records; as Trigona (Tetragona) heideri, western Colombia)
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Roubik, D. W. (1992). Stingless Bees: A guide to Panamanian and Mesoamerican species and their nests (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae) pp. 495-524 in Quintero, D. & A. Aiello (ed.) Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica. Selected Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press 692 pp. [502, 503, 510, 523] (as Trigona (Ptilotrigona) lurida occidentalis, key, synonym, geographic range, diagnosis, nesting site: on living tree, nest entrance, defense behavior; as Trigona (Ptilotrigona) lurida, figure, Costa Rica)
Roubik, D. W. & Camargo, J. M. F. (2011). The Panama microplate, island studies and relictual species of Melipona (Melikerria) (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Syst. Entomol. (DOI) 10.1111/j.1365-3113. (2011.00587x): 1-11 [189, 193, 197] (biogeography, disjunct distribution, figure)
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Schwarz, H. F. (1943). New Trigona bees from Peru. Am. Mus. Novit. 1243: 1-10 [4] (as Trigona (Tetragona) heideri occidentalis, taxonomic note)
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