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Schwarziana quadripunctata (Lepeletier, 1836)
Common Names: "abelha-mulata", "guiruçu", "mulatinha", "abelha-do-chão", "papaterra", "irussú-mineiro", "irussú-do-chão", "eira-ihvihgwih", "doncellita", "señorita", "mombuca-mirim", "mombuquinha"
Melipona bipartita Lepeletier, A. L. M. (1836). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes- Hyménoptères. Paris: Roret Vol. 1 1-547 pp. [432] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: holotype MNHP <F> worker.
Type locality: "Nord de la Capt. S. Paul" [= São Paulo] Brazil.

Melipona quadripunctata Lepeletier, A. L. M. (1836). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes- Hyménoptères. Paris: Roret Vol. 1 1-547 pp. [430] .
Type data: Type whereabouts unknown <F> worker (According to Schwarz, 1948: 421-422, two specimens in MNHP have been designated as the types of <I>Melipona quadripunctata</I>, on one of these the label reads "Brésil, Les Missiones", on the other the locality designation is "Cie de Rio Grande", The first one, from "Les Missiones", was considered as lectotype by Moure in 1958,<I> in litt</I>. As <I>Melipona quadripunctata </I>was described from "capitainerie de Goyan" [=Goiás, Brazil] it is possible that neither of these specimens is part of the authentic type material, or the type locality was erroneously indicated by Lepeletier, 1836: 430).
Type locality: Brazil, "capitainerie de Goyan".

Trigona basalis Smith, F. (1854). Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, Part 2. Apidae. London: British Museum 199-465 pp. [412] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: syntype BMNH 17B 1094 <F> workers , syntype whereabouts unknown <F> workers (?).
Type locality: Brazil; Columbia [!].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Camargo, J. M. F. (1974). Notas sobre a morfologia de Plebeia (Schwarziana) quadripunctata quadripunctata (Hym., Apidae). Stud. Entomol. 17 (1-4): 433-470 [436, 469]
Ducke, A. (1910). Zur Synonymie der neotropischen Apidae. (Hym.). Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 6 (4): 362-369 [367, 368]
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 [139]
Schwarz, H. F. (1948). Stingless bees (Meliponidae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 90: xvii+546 [423]

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Argentina (Buenos Aires, Misiones), Brazil (Bahia [Igrapiúna, Itaeté], Espírito Santo, Goiás [Goiás], Minas Gerais [Barbacena, Belo Horizonte, Lassance, Lima Duarte, Paraopeba, Passa Quatro, Ponte Nova, Santana Do Riacho, Viçosa], Paraná [Curitiba, Lapa, Ponta Grossa], Rio Grande do Sul [Bom Jesus, Cambará Do Sul, Canela, Gramado, Guarani Das Missões, Nova Petrópolis, Osório, Planalto, São Francisco De Paula, Taquari, Tenente Portela], Rio de Janeiro [Macaé, Nova Iguaçu, Petrópolis, Rio De Janeiro], Santa Catarina [Lages, Seara], São Paulo [Batatais, Cajuru, Corumbataí, Cotia, Guarulhos, Jundiaí, Pereira Barreto, Ribeirão Preto, Salesópolis, Santos, São Paulo, Ubatuba]), Paraguay (Alto Paraná, Central, Cordillera)

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