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Trigona cilipes (Fabricius, 1804)
Common Names: "angelita", "buhnide", "mehnôrá-kamrek"
Centris cilipes Fabricius, J. C. (1804). Systema Piezatorum secundum ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Brunsvigae: Reichard 1-439 pp. [361] .
Type data: lectotype ZMUC <F> worker (lectotype reexamined by Claus Rasmussen in 22.VIII.2005, allowing to confirm the synonymy here proposed) , paralectotype ZMUC <F> worker (1) , paralectotype ZMUC <F> workers (2).
Subsequent designation: Moure, J. S. (1960). Notes on the types of the Neotropical bees described by Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Stud. Entomol. (Rio de Janeiro) 3 (1-4): 97-160 [157] .
Type locality: "Ex. Am. mer. Schmidt" [probably from British Guiana, according to Moure, 1960: 157].

Trigona compressa Latreille, P. A. (1811). Insectes de l'Amérique Équinoxiale, recueillis pendant le voyage de MM. Humboldt et Bonpland pp. 173-174, 260-297 in Humboldt, F. H. A. & Bonpland, A. J. A. (ed.) Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du noveau continent, fait en 1799-1804. Recueil d' observations de zoollogie et d' anatomie comparée, faites dans l' océan Atlantique, dans l' intérieur du nouveau continent et dans le Mer du Sud pendant les années 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802 et 1803 Vol. 1. Paris: F. Schoell & G. Dufour 352 pp. [294, plate 20 - figure 7] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: Type whereabouts unknown <F> worker (According to C. Rasmussen,<I> in litt</I>., type specimens of <I>T. compressa</I> Latreille were not located in the main collections of Europe).
Type locality: Brazil.

Trigona (Trigona) mazucatoi Almeida, M. C. (1995). Quatro espécies novas de Trigona (s. str.) (Apidae, Meliponinae) da região neotropical. Acta Biol. Paranaense (Curitiba) 21 (1992) (1,2,3,4): 181-193 [183] (junior subjective synonym) .
Type data: holotype DZUP <F> worker (Although Almeida (1995: 184, 185) mentioned paratypes deposited in RPSP, no type specimen of <I>T. mazucatoi</I> was sent to this collection) , paratype DZUP , paratype INPA.
Type locality: Oiapoque, Amapá, Brazil, VI.1959, F. V. Rodrigues col..

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

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. [532] (the synonymy of Trigona mazucatoi Almeida as junior synonym was proposed based on photos of the lectotype and paralectotype of Trigona cilipes, and notes kindly sent by C. Rasmussen)
Moure, J. S. (1960). Notes on the types of the Neotropical bees described by Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Stud. Entomol. (Rio de Janeiro) 3 (1-4): 97-160 [157]

Remarks

Trigona cilipes differs from T. lacteipennis Friese by the mesoscutal setae, shorter than the diameter of the scape and sparser, and the tip of the forewings with black microtrichia, and nests in arboreal termite nests. See Remarks under Trigona lacteipennis Friese. Specimens from Central America and western Andes referred as Trigona cilipes in the literature is an undescribed species

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Bolivia (El Beni, La Paz), Brazil (Acre [Rio Branco], Amapá [Macapá, Oiapoque], Amazonas [Manaus, Novo Airão, Santa Isabel Do Rio Negro], Goiás, Mato Grosso [Chapada Dos Guimarães, Nova Ubiratã, Nova Xavantina], Pará [Cumaru Do Norte, Oriximiná], Rondônia [Porto Velho], Roraima), Colombia (Cundinamarca), Costa Rica, Ecuador (Morona Santiago), French Guiana (Cayenne, Kourou), Guyana (Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Potaro-Siparuni, Upper Demerara-Berbice), Panama, Peru (Junín, Loreto, San Martín), Suriname, Venezuela (Amazonas)

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Parra, G. (1984). Censo parcial de las abejas sin aguijon (Apidae-Meliponinae) del Occidente Colombiano. Cespedesia 13 (49-50): 277-290 [286] (? uncertain identity, as Trigona (Trigona) cf. compressa, geographic record, pollen foraging: Bixa orellana)
Perty, J. A. M. (1833). De insectorum in America meridionali habitantium vitae genere, moribus ac distributione geographica observationes nonnullae pp. 25-29 in Spix, J. B. & Martius, C. F. P. (ed.) Delectus animalium articulatorum, quae in itinere per Brasiliam annis 1817 et 1820. Munich: . . pp. [26] (as Trigona compressa [*from Schwarz, 1948: 340])
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