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Melipona (Michmelia) paraensis Ducke, 1916
Common Names: "uruçu-boca-de-ralo", "me-tekere"
Melipona scutellaris paraensis 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 [156] (originaly described as Melipona scutellaris rufiventris paraensis Ducke) .
Type data: lectotype MZUSP 103298 <F> worker (We consider as lectotype the specimen studied by Moure & Kerr, 1950: 127, with label of "tipo", "1012" and additional label of "typus Pe. J. S. Moure det. 1986". The material studied by Ducke was compound of several species and additional type specimens have not been located).
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. [393] (lectotype designated by Moure, 1986 (in litt.)) .
Type locality: Pará, Brazil, 1890, Schulze [sic].

Melipona fasciata barticensis Cockerell, T. D. A (1918). Bees from British Guiana. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 38: 685-690 [687, 688] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: holotype USNM 21672 <F> worker (type number indicated by Cockerell, 1919: 200) , paratype USNM <F> worker.
Type locality: Bartica, British Guiana, 17.V.1901, R. J. Crew.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Moure, J. S. (1962). Notas sobre meliponas da Hiléia Amazônica (Hym., Apoidea). Bol. Univ. Paraná 19: 10-12 [10]
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 [392]

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Brazil (Amapá [Macapá, Oiapoque], Amazonas [Manaus], Pará [Itaituba, Oriximiná, Óbidos]), French Guiana, Guyana (Cuyuni-Mazaruni, East Berbice-Corentyne, Potaro-Siparuni, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo), Suriname (Marowijne), Venezuela (Amazonas)

References

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