Melipona (Melikerria) interrupta Latreille, 1811
Common Names: "jandaíra-preta-da-Amazônia", "jupará", "rosilha"
Melipona interrupta
Latreille, P. A. (1811). Insectes de l'Amérique Équinoxiale, recueillis pendant le voyage de MM. Humboldt et Bonpland pp. 173-174, 260-297 in Humboldt, F. H. A. & Bonpland, A. J. A. (ed.) Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du noveau continent, fait en 1799-1804. Recueil d' observations de zoollogie et d' anatomie comparée, faites dans l' océan Atlantique, dans l' intérieur du nouveau continent et dans le Mer du Sud pendant les années 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802 et 1803 Vol. 1. Paris: F. Schoell & G. Dufour 352 pp. [291, plate XX, figure 3] .
Type data: holotype whereabouts unknown <F> worker (Probably, if it exists, deposited in MNHP).
Type locality: Cayenne, French Guyana, Le Blond leg..
Melipona interrupta manaosensis
Schwarz, H. F. (1932). The genus Melipona the type genus of the Meliponidae or stingless bees. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 63 (4): 231-460 [301] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: holotype AMNH <F> worker , allotype AMNH <M> male , paratype AMNH <F> workers , paratype CUIC 905 <F> worker , paratype RPSP <F> worker , paratype INHS <F> worker (1) (also in the collections of George Salt and J. Bequaert).
Type locality: "Mañaos" [= Manaus], Amazonas, Brazil, 11.IX.1924, J. Bequaert.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Camargo, J. M. F. & Pedro, S. R. M. (2007). Meliponini Lepeletier, 1836 pp. 272-578 in Moure, J. S., Urban, D. & Melo, G. A. R. (ed.) Catalogue of Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in the Neotropical Region. Curitiba: Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia xiv + 1058 pp. [341]
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Brazil (Amapá [Calçoene, Macapá], Amazonas [Manaus, São Sebastião Do Uatumã], Pará [Belém, Santarém]), French Guiana (Cayenne), Guyana, Suriname (Marowijne)
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Wille, A. & C. D. Michener (1973). The nest architecture of stingless bees with special reference to those of Costa Rica. Rev. Biol. Trop. 21 (Suplemento 1): 1-278 [16, 27, 51, 62, 74] (as Melipona compressipes manaosensis, nesting site: tree cavities, nest characteristics, citation)
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