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Paratrigona lundelli (Schwarz, 1938)
Trigona (Paratrigona) opaca lundelli Schwarz, H. F. (1938). The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of British Guiana and some related forms. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 74: 437-508 [494] .
Type data: holotype AMNH <F> worker , paratype AMNH <F> workers , paratype MCZ <F> workers , paratype AMNH <F> workers (paratypes from Guyana, Kartabo, are probably <I>Paratrigona pannosa </I>Moure - see Camargo & Moure: 1994: 48).
Type locality: British Honduras [=Belize], October and December, 1928, C. L. Lundell.

Remarks

Probable junior synonym of Paratrigona opaca (Cockerell) - see Camargo & Moure (1994: 48).

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Belize, Guyana

References

Ayala, R. (1999). Revision de las abejas sin aguijon de Mexico (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Folia Entomológica Mexicana 106: 1-123 [5] (as Trigona opaca lundelli, list)
Camargo, J. M. F. & J. S. Moure (1994). Meliponinae Neotropicais: Os gêneros Paratrigona Schwarz, 1938 e Aparatrigona Moure, 1951 (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Arq. Zool. (São Paulo) 32 (2): 33-109 [39, 44, 47-48, 86, 87, 88] (key, synonymy, taxonomy, diagnosis geographic records, geographic range - citation, phylogeny)
Gonzalez, V. H. & Griswold, T. L. (2011). Two new species of Paratrigona and the male of Paratrigona ornaticeps (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 120: 9-25 [21] (geographic range)
Schwarz, H. F. (1938). The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of British Guiana and some related forms. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 74: 437-508 [448, 494, 495] (as Trigona (Paratrigona) opaca variety lundelli, key, taxonomy, brood cells)
Schwarz, H. F. (1948). Stingless bees (Meliponidae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 90: xvii+546 [355, 373, 378] (as Trigona (Paratrigona) opaca variety lundelli, key, diagnosis, taxonomy, brood cells)

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