Paratrigona peltata (Spinola, 1853)
Trigona peltata
Spinola, M. (1853). Compte rendu des Hyménoptères inédits provenants du voyage entomologique de M. Ghiliani dans le Para en 1846. Mem. R. Accad. Sci. Torino (2) 13: 19-94 [93] (in the original description by Spinola (1853: 93) the genus is indicated with a question mark: "Trigona? peltata") .
Type data: holotype MZUT <M> male ?.
Type locality: Belém, Pará, Brasil, 1846 [according to Moure, 1963: 257].
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Brazil (Maranhão [Carolina, Imperatriz], Pará [Belém, Capanema, Cumaru Do Norte, Igarapé-Açu, Itaituba])
References
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Dalla Torre C. G. de (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum; Hucusque Descriptorum Systematicus et Synonymicus. Leipzig: Engelmann Vol. 10 viii+1–643 pp. [582] (as Melipona peltata, list)
Ducke, A. (1901). Beobachtungen über Blütenbesuch, Erscheinungszeit etc. der bei Pará vorkommenden Bienen. Z. Syst. Hymenopterol. Dipterol. 1: 49-67 [65] (as Melipona bilineata, list, geographic record)
Ducke, A. (1902). Beobachtungen über Blütenbesuch, Erscheinungszeit etc. der bei Pará vorkommenden Bienen. Allg. Z. Entomol. 7 (20): 417-422 [419] (as Melipona bilineata, list)
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Ducke, A. (1902). Beobachtungen über blütenbesuch, erscheinungszeit etc. der bei Pará vorkommenden bienen. II. Allg. Z. Entomol. 7 (17): 321-326 [323] (as Melipona bilineata, flower records: Miconia minutiflora (Melastomataceae), Pseudima frutescens (Sapindaceae))
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