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Melipona (Michmelia) fasciata Latreille, 1811
Common Name: "colmena-real"
Melipona fasciata 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. [173, plate XVI, figure 13] .
Type data: syntype whereabouts unknown <F> workers [?] (types probably deposited in MNHP [if exist]).
Type locality: Vera Cruz, Mexico, II-III.1804 [probable date] [according to Schwarz, the types were probably collected by Bonpland].

Melipona fuscipes Friese, H. (1900). Neue arten der Bienengattungen Melipona Ill. Und Trigona Jur. Természetr. Füz. 23: 381-394 [382] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: lectotype NMW <F> worker , paralectotype NMW <F> worker (1) (Moure, 1971, examined also one specimen from Popayan, which was considered by him as junior synonym of <I>Melipona solani</I> Cockerell. The identity of the other syntypes from Venezuela, Brazil (Piauhy) and Peru (Yquitos), probably deposited in the Hungarian Museum and ZMB, is unknown).
Subsequent designation: Moure, J. S. (1971). Notas sobre algumas espécies duvidosas de Melipona (Hymenoptera - Apidae). Arq. Mus. Nac. (Rio J.) 54: 193-201 [201] .
Type locality: "Cornuvacca" [= Cuernavaca], Veracruz, México, 1871, Bilimek leg..

Melipona fasciata guerreroensis Schwarz, H. F. (1936). Further comments on Melipona. J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 44: 1-6 [1] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: syntype BMNH <F> workers, male (3) , syntype AMNH <F> workers , syntype CAS <F> workers.
Type locality: Tierra Colorada, 2000ft., Rincón, 2800 ft., Tepetlapa, 3000 ft.; Amula 6000 ft., Xucumanatlan, 7000 ft., Omilteme, 8000 ft., Chilpancingo, 4600 ft., Guerrero, Mexico, H. H. Smith; Oaxaca and Orizaba, México, XII.1887, Goldman-Salvin; Real de Arriba, Temascaltepec, 6370 ft., Mexico, H. E. Hinton, & R. L. Usinger.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Moure, J. S. (1971). Notas sobre algumas espécies duvidosas de Melipona (Hymenoptera - Apidae). Arq. Mus. Nac. (Rio J.) 54: 193-201 [201]

Distribution

Nearctic Region: Mexico (Guerrero, Michoacán de Ocampo, Morelos, México, Oaxaca, Veracruz-Llave)

References

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