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Trigona dimidiata Smith, 1854
Trigona dimidiata Smith, F. (1854). Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, Part 2. Apidae. London: British Museum 199-465 pp. [411] .
Type data: holotype whereabouts unknown <F> worker (According to Schwarz, 1948:290, it is possible that Smith's description was based on a unique specimen, probably deposited in the Smith collection at Oxford University).
Type locality: Pará, Brazil.

Trigona atroalba Ducke, A. (1908). Contributions à la connaissance des Hyménoptères des deux Amériques. Rev. Entomol. (Caen) 27 (3): 28-87 [35] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: syntype whereabouts unknown <F> workers.
Type locality: Tefé and Santo Antonio do Içá, Amazonas, Brazil, VIII, IX.1906, Ducke leg..

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 [74]

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Bolivia (La Paz), Brazil (Amazonas [Itacoatiara, Santo Antônio Do Içá, Tefé], Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia), Colombia (Meta), Ecuador (Morona Santiago), Peru (Huánuco, Junín, Loreto, San Martín)

References

Almeida, M. C. (1992). Estudo de algumas espécies de Trigona Jurine, 1807 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Meliponinae) da região neotropical. [dissertation abstract] pp. 23-24 in Soares, A. E. E. & De Jong, D. (ed.) Pesquisas com abelhas no Brasil. Ribeirão Preto: Revista Brasileira de Genética 680 pp. [23, 24] (morphology, taxonomic characters, phenetic analysis)
Baumgartner, D. L. & Roubik, D. W. (1989). Ecology of Necrophilous and Filth-Gathering Stingless Bees (Apidae: Meliponinae) of Peru. J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 62 (1): 11-22 [14, 17] (non-floral baits, altitudinal range, synanthropy)
Camargo, J. M. F. (1988). Meliponinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae) da coleção do "Istituto di Entomologia Agraria", Portici, Itália. Rev. Bras. Entomol. 32 (3/4): 351–374 [366] (geographic records)
Dalla Torre C. G. de (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum; Hucusque Descriptorum Systematicus et Synonymicus. Leipzig: Engelmann Vol. 10 viii+1–643 pp. [577] (as Melipona dimidiata, list)
Ducke, A. (1908). Contributions à la connaissance des Hyménoptères des deux Amériques. Rev. Entomol. (Caen) 27 (3): 28-87 [35] (as Trigona atroalba, description, comparative notes, geographic record)
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 [14, 31, 74, 77] (as Melipona dimidiata, geographic record, geographic range [unnumbered table after page 28], key, synonymy, description, diagnosis, comparative notes, daily activity)
Ducke, A. (1925). Die stachellosen Bienen (Melipona) Brasiliens, Nach morphologischen und ethologischen Merkmalen geordnet. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Geogr. Biol. Tiere 49: 335-448 [343, 351, 386] (as Melipona dimidiata, geographic range, key, synonymy, description, diagnosis, comparative notes, geographic records, daily activity)
Kerr, W. E. (1951). Bases para o estudo da genética de populações dos Hymenoptera em geral e dos Apinae sociais em particular. An. Esc. Sup. Agric. "Luiz de Queiroz" 8: 219-354 [299] (wing color, mimicry: Chatergus, Eulema [sic])
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Marianno, J. (1911). Ensaio sobre as Meliponidas do Brasil.. Rio de Janeiro: edição do autor 1-140 pp. [91] (diagnosis)
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Nates-Parra, G. (2001). Las abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 2 (3): 233-248 [240] (as Trigona (Trigona) dimidiata dimidiata, geographic range, altitudinal range)
Roubik, D. W. (1992). Stingless Bees: A guide to Panamanian and Mesoamerican species and their nests (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae) pp. 495-524 in Quintero, D. & A. Aiello (ed.) Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica. Selected Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press 692 pp. [499] (as Trigona (Trigona) dimidiata, figure: hind tibia)
Santos, C.F. & Absy, M.L. (2010). Polinizadores de Bertholletia excelsa (Lecythidales: Lecythidaceae): Interações com Abelhas sem Ferrão (Apidae: Meliponini) e Nicho Trófico. Neotropical Entomology 39 (6): 854-861 [856] (Distribution)
Schwarz, H. F. (1948). Stingless bees (Meliponidae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 90: xvii+546 [115, 204, 208, 281, 287-291, 344] (as Trigona (Trigona) dimidiata dimidiata, hamuli, key, comparative notes, synonymy, diagnosis, description, notes on type, taxonomy, nesting site: on trunk of tree, nest characteristics - citation, geographic range, geographic records, figures: mandible, hind leg, wing)
Silveira, F. A., G. A. R. Melo & E. A. B. Almeida (2002). Abelhas Brasileiras: Sistemática e Identificação. Belo Horizonte: F. A. Silveira 253 pp. [92] (list, geographic range)
Wille, A. & C. D. Michener (1973). The nest architecture of stingless bees with special reference to those of Costa Rica. Rev. Biol. Trop. 21 (Suplemento 1): 1-278 [15, 26, 49, 60, 72] (as Trigona (Trigona) dimidiata dimidiata, nesting site: exposed, nest characteristics, citation)

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