Melipona (Eomelipona) bicolor bicolor Lepeletier, 1836
Common Names: "guaraipo", "guarupú", "guarubú", "pé-de-pau", "urusû-pé-de-páo"
Melipona bicolor
Lepeletier, A. L. M. (1836). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes- Hyménoptères. Paris: Roret Vol. 1 1-547 pp. [423] .
Type data: lectotype MNHP <F> worker , paralectotype MNHP <F> worker (1).
Subsequent designation: 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 [619] .
Type locality: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Melipona nigra
Lepeletier, A. L. M. (1836). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes- Hyménoptères. Paris: Roret Vol. 1 1-547 pp. [423] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: holotype MNHP <F> worker ( ).
Type locality: Brazil, 1815, A. Saint-Hilaire.
Melipona (Trigona) vestita
Spinola, M. (1840). Observationes sur les apiaires meliponides. Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. Biol. Anim. 13: 116-140 [124] (nom. nud.) .
Melipona vulpina
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1919). Bees in the collection of the United States Museum. - 3. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 55: 167-221 [204] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: holotype USNM 21679 <F> worker.
Type locality: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, VII.1915, P. G. Russell.
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 [619]
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 [422]
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