Scaura tenuis (Ducke, 1916)
Common Name: "ramichi-negra"
Melipona crassipes tenuis
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 [46] .
Type data: syntype MPEG <F> workers (?) (types probably lost, not listed by Nascimento, 1979).
Type locality: Brazil: Pará: Itaituba; upper Amazônia: Javary and Japurá rivers; northern Mato Grosso: upper Tapajós region, G. Kuhlmann leg..
Remarks
More than one species included
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Brazil (Amazonas [Benjamin Constant, Ipixuna, Iranduba, Japurá, Manaus, Santa Isabel Do Rio Negro, São Gabriel Da Cachoeira], Mato Grosso [Juína, Nova Ubiratã], Pará [Itaituba]), Colombia (Amazonas, Meta), Peru (San Martín), Suriname
References
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