Aparatrigona impunctata (Ducke, 1916)
Melipona impunctata
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 [101] .
Type data: lectotype MPEG <F> worker.
Subsequent designation: Nascimento, P. T. R. (1979). Catálogo de tipos entomológicos do Museu Goeldi. Hymenoptera. Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio Goeldi, sér. Zool. 98: 1-18 [6] (lectotype designated by Moure & Michener, 1955, in Nascimento, 1979) .
Type locality: Ilha do Marajó, rio Anajás, Brasil, 8.VI.1900, Ducke.
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Brazil (Acre [Rio Branco], Amapá [Macapá, Oiapoque], Amazonas [Itacoatiara, Manaus, Tefé], Maranhão [Carutapera], Mato Grosso [Vila Bela Da Santíssima Trindade], Pará [Almeirim, Anajás, Capanema, Conceição Do Araguaia, Cumaru Do Norte, Faro, Itaituba], Rondônia [Nova Mamoré, Pimenta Bueno, Porto Velho], Roraima [Amajari]), Colombia (Cundinamarca), Ecuador (Napo, Sucumbíos), French Guiana (Cayenne, Kourou, Sinnamary), Guyana (Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Potaro-Siparuni, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo), Peru (Loreto), Suriname (Marowijne)
References
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