Trigona amazonensis (Ducke, 1916)
Common Names: "xupé-grande", "xupé-mangangá", "mangangá", "txashku-buiki", "arapuá-preto-médio", "abelha-cu-de-vaca", "nawa-bakû", "ku-krãi-ti", "abeja-arambaso", "amo", "corta-pelo"
Melipona ruficrus amazonensis
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 [132] .
Type data: syntype whereabouts unknown <F> workers (According to Schwarz (1948: 242) the type specimens were presumably deposited in MPEG. However, in the catalog of types of MPEG (Nascimento, 1979) the type specimens of <I>Trigona amazonensis </I>were not mentioned).
Type locality: Tefé and Alto Rio Purus, Amazonas, and Rio Acre, Acre, Brazil.
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Bolivia (Cochabamba, El Beni, La Paz), Brazil (Acre [Rio Branco], Amazonas [Humaitá, Tapauá, Tefé], Mato Grosso [Cuiabá], Pará [Cumaru Do Norte], Rondônia [Porto Velho], Tocantins [Esperantina, Santa Maria Do Tocantins]), Colombia (Caquetá, Cundinamarca), Ecuador (Pastaza), Peru (Huánuco, Junín, Loreto, Madre de Dios)
References
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