Trigona hypogea Silvestri, 1902
Trigona hypogea
Silvestri, F. (1902). Contribuzione alla conoscenza dei Meliponidi del Bacino del Rio de la Plata. Rivista di Patologia Vegetale 10: 121-174 [132] .
Type data: lectotype IEA <F> worker , paralectotype IEA <F> workers (28), <M> males (9) , paralectotype RPSP <F> workers (3), <M> male (1) , paralectotype DZUP <F> worker (1).
Subsequent designation: Camargo, J. M. F. & J. S. Moure (1988). Notas sobre os Meliponinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae) colecionados por Filippo Silvestri na bacia do Rio da Prata. Rev. Bras. Entomol. 32 (2): 293-314 [297] .
Type locality: Coxipó, Mato Grosso, Brazil, 11.IX.1900.
Trigona argentata minor
Schwarz, H. F. (1948). Stingless bees (Meliponidae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 90: xvii+546 [232] (nom. nud., manuscript name attributed to Friese; specimens in ZMB) .
Remarks
Under the name Trigona hypogea there are other undescribed species.
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Bolivia (El Beni, La Paz, Pando), Brazil (Amapá, Amazonas [Manaus, Santo Antônio Do Içá, Tabatinga, Tefé], Maranhão, Mato Grosso [Cuiabá], Mato Grosso do Sul [Porto Murtinho], Minas Gerais [Araguari], Pará [Anajás, Conceição Do Araguaia, Itaituba, Óbidos], São Paulo [Cajuru, Franca, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo]), Colombia (Amazonas), Peru (Junín)
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Serrão, J. E. (1992). Estudo das adaptações morfológicas do proventrículo e ventrículo de abelhas (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae) a hábitos alimentares discrepantes. [dissertation abstract] pp. 402-403 in Soares, A. E. E. & De Jong, D. (ed.) Pesquisas com abelhas no Brasil. Ribeirão Preto: Revista Brasileira de Genética 680 pp. [402, 403] (morphology, proventriculus, ventriculus)
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