Trigona williana Friese, 1900
Common Name: "kajawo-dawa"
Trigona williana
Friese, H. (1900). Neue arten der Bienengattungen Melipona Ill. Und Trigona Jur. Természetr. Füz. 23: 381-394 [388] .
Type data: lectotype HNHM 631./147 <F> worker (Type specimens from Surinam and Brazil: Obidos, Piauhy, were not located) , paralectotype HNHM 588/257 <F> worker , paralectotype ZSM <F> worker (1).
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. [570] (designation of the lectotype by Claus Rasmussen, 29.III.2006, in litt.) .
Type locality: "Brasil/Coary" [Coari, Amazonas, Brazil].
Etymology: homage to Prof. L. Will.
Trigona rhodoptera
Cockerell, T. D. A (1912). New bees from Brazil. Psyche 19: 41-61 [49] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: holotype USNM 23255 <F> worker , paratype USNM <F> worker (Probably deposited in USNM).
Type locality: Abuná, Rio Madeira, Rondônia, Brazil, Mann & Baker leg..
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Cockerell, T. D. A (1920). Some neotropical meliponid bees. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 42: 459-468 [462]
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Bolivia (El Beni), Brazil (Acre [Jordão], Amapá [Macapá, Oiapoque, Santana], Amazonas [Benjamin Constant, Coari, Manaus, Novo Airão, Tefé], Maranhão [Buriticupu], Mato Grosso [Chapada Dos Guimarães, Cuiabá], Pará [Alenquer, Belém, Faro, Itaituba, Melgaço, Santarém, Óbidos], Rondônia [Porto Velho, Vilhena], Roraima [Boa Vista]), Colombia (Amazonas, Caquetá, Cundinamarca), Ecuador (Napo, Sucumbíos), French Guiana (Kourou, Sinnamary), Guyana (Barima-Waini, Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Potaro-Siparuni, Upper Demerara-Berbice, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo), Peru (Huánuco, Junín, Loreto), Suriname, Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar)
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