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Melipona (Michmelia) scutellaris Latreille, 1811
Common Names: "urussu", "urussu-boi", "irussu", "eiruçu", "uruçu", "iruçu"
Melipona scutellaris 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. [290, plate 20, figure 2] .
Type data: syntype whereabouts unknown <F> workers (probably deposited in ZMB, Berlin, Germany, considering the specimens were received from Illiger who may have received his Brazilian specimens from Count von Hoffmannsegg, who in turn received material from one of his collectors, possibly from F. A. Gomes, from Bahia. The collection Hoffmannsegg is now in Berlin, according to Dr. Gerardo Lamas,<I> in litteris</I>).
Type locality: Brazil.

Melipona mutata Lepeletier, A. L. M. (1836). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes- Hyménoptères. Paris: Roret Vol. 1 1-547 pp. [419] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: holotype MZUT <F> worker.
Type locality: Cayenne [according to Moure, 1975: 621, the type specimens was mislabeled, the species is from northeastern Brazil].

Melipona bonitensis Cockerell, T. D. A. (1919). Bees in the collection of the United States Museum. - 3. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 55: 167-221 [200] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: holotype USNM 21671 <F> worker , paratype USNM <F> worker (see Schwarz, 1932: 402).
Type locality: Bonito, Pernambuco, Brazil, I.1883, anonymous.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Moure, J. S. (1975). Notas sobre as espécies de Melipona descritas por Lepeletier em 1836 (Hymenoptera - Apidae). Rev. Bras. Biol. (Rio de Janeiro) 35 (4): 615-623 [621]
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 [401]

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Brazil (Alagoas, Bahia [Camaçari, Catu, Conceição Do Almeida, Cruz Das Almas, Feira De Santana, Igrapiúna, Lençóis, Piatã, Ruy Barbosa], Ceará, Paraíba [Mamanguape, Seridó], Pernambuco [Bonito, Camaragibe, Caruaru, Recife], Rio Grande do Norte [Mossoró], Sergipe [Areia Branca, Riachuelo])

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