Melipona (Melikerria) grandis Guérin, 1844
Common Names: "guare", "patchumepube", "buná-bissu", "uruçu-cinzento", "rajadinho-maior", "preto-maior"
Melipona grandis
Guérin-Méneville, F. E. (1844). Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non encore figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux; pouvant servir d'atlas à tous les traités de Zoologie. Paris: Baillière, J. B. Vol. 3 xxix+ 653, plates 2 pp. [463] .
Type data: syntype MNHP <F> workers.
Type locality: Bolivia, Chiquitos, 1834, D'Orbigny.
Anthidium pictifrons
Packard, A. S., Jr. (1869). List of hymenopterous and lepidopterous insects collected by the Smithsonian expedition to South America, under Prof. James Orton. Ann. Rept. Trustees Peabody Acad. Sci. 1: 56-59 [59] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: holotype MCZ <F> worker.
Type locality: Napo River, Ecuador, Orton leg..
Melipona interrupta aequatorialis
Schulz, W. A. (1904). Hymenopteren Amazoniens. Sitzungsber. König. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Mathem.-physik. Kl 33 (1903): 757-832 [815] (junior subjective synonym of Melipona grandis Guérin, 1844) .
Type data: lectotype BMNH 17B 1068 <F> worker , paralectotype BMNH <F> worker.
Subsequent designation: 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. [340] (lectotype designated by Moure, 16.XII.1957, in litt.) .
Type locality: Archidona and Coca, Ecuador, 1899, Haensch.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
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 [163]
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 [306]
Schwarz, H. F. (1933). Two Stelis (Odontostelis) and a Melipona bee that have been recorded in error as Anthidiinae. Am. Mus. Novit. 650: 1-5 [4-5]
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Bolivia (El Beni, La Paz, Pando, Santa Cruz), Brazil (Acre [Rio Branco], Amazonas [Santo Antônio Do Içá, Tefé], Mato Grosso [Campo Novo Do Parecis], Rondônia [Nova União, Ouro Preto Do Oeste, Porto Velho]), Colombia (Amazonas, Meta), Ecuador (Napo), Peru (Loreto, Pasco, San Martín)
References
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Schwarz, H. F. (1933). Two Stelis (Odontostelis) and a Melipona bee that have been recorded in error as Anthidiinae. Am. Mus. Novit. 650: 1-5 [4-5] (as Melipona interrupta grandis, synonymy: Anthidium pictifrons Packard, taxonomic notes)
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Smith-Pardo, A. H. (2003). A preliminary account of the bees of Colombia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea): present knowledge and future directions. J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 76 (2): 335-341 [338] (as Melipona grandis, list)
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