Cephalotrigona capitata (Smith, 1854)
Common Names: "abelha-papaterra", "mombucão", "currunchos", "Guare Negra", "mombuca", "eiruzú", "negrito", "eirusú", "eirusú-grande", "mumbuca", "bombuca", "jiu-butu"
Trigona capitata
Smith, F. (1854). Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, Part 2. Apidae. London: British Museum 199-465 pp. [409] .
Type data: holotype BMNH 17B 1079 <F> worker (Schwarz, 1948: 449 mentioned one type specimen in BMNH).
Type locality: Brazil.
Trigona capitata virgilii
Friese, H. (1901). Neue arten der Bienengattung Trigona Jur. (Hym.). Z. Syst. Hymenopterol. Dipterol. 1: 265-271 [268] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: holotype whereabouts unknown <F> worker.
Type locality: Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brasil, Oct. 1898, G. Virgil leg..
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Schwarz, H. F. (1940). Additional species and records of stingless bees (Meliponidae) from British Guiana. Am. Mus. Novit. 1078: 1-12 [12]
Schwarz, H. F. (1948). Stingless bees (Meliponidae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 90: xvii+546 [446]
Remarks
There is no modern revision for the genus and, as presented here, Cephalotrigona capitata (Smith) likely corresponds to a species complex, with more than one species. Therefore, the geographic distribution provided here cannot be used as basis for granting permission to colony translocation.
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Argentina (Misiones), Bolivia (Cochabamba, El Beni, La Paz), Brazil (Amapá [Macapá], Bahia [Igrapiúna], Ceará [Baturité, Guaramiranga], Espírito Santo, Mato Grosso [Chapada Dos Guimarães, Gaúcha Do Norte, Juína, Sinop], Minas Gerais [Araguari, Uberlândia], Paraná [Paranaguá], Pará [Anajás, Belém, Conceição Do Araguaia, Santarém, Óbidos], Santa Catarina [Blumenau, Seara], São Paulo [Bauru, Cajuru, Jundiaí, Ribeirão Preto, Rio Claro, Salesópolis, São Paulo]), Colombia (Cundinamarca, Meta), French Guiana (Kourou), Guyana (Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Mahaica-Berbice, Potaro-Siparuni, Upper Demerara-Berbice), Paraguay (Alto Paraguay, Alto Paraná), Peru (Junín, Loreto), Suriname (Marowijne, Para), Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela (Bolívar)
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Nogueira-Neto, P. (1990). Uma nova colméia para meliponineos (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae). Publ. Tecnapis Ecol. Etol. 2: 1-10 [3, 9] (folk name: "mombucão", beekeeping, rearing)
Nogueira-Neto, P. (1991). Aperfeiçoando uma colméia para meliponineos (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae). Publ. Tecnapis Ecol. Etol. 4: 1-15 [3] (folk name: "mombucão", rearing)
Nogueira-Neto, P. (1993). Novas técnicas para criar meliponíneos (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae). Publ. Tecnapis Ecol. Etol. 5: 1-16 [4, 6] (folk name: "mombucão", rearing, parasite: Phoridae, artificial hive)
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Pires, V.C., Silveira, F.A., Sujii, E.R., Torezani, K.R.S., Rodrigues, W.A., Albuquerque, F.A., Rodrigues, S.M.M., Salomão, A.N. & Pires, C.S.S. (2014). Importance of bee pollination for cotton production in conventional and organic farms in Brazil. J. Pollinat. Ecol. 13 (16): 151-160 [154] (Distribution)
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