Trigona corvina Cockerell, 1913
Common Names: "zagaña", "atarrá", "zagaño", "enredapelos"
Trigona ruficrus corvina
Cockerell, T. D. A (1913). Meliponine bees from Central America. Psyche 20 (1): 10-14 [12] .
Type data: holotype AMNH <F> worker , paratype MCZ 8857 <F> worker (1).
Type locality: Zacapa, Guatemala, 12.XII.1911, No. 3, W. M. Wheeler.
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Distrito Federal, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz-Llave); Neotropical Region: Belize (Belize, Cayo), Colombia (Chocó, Magdalena, Valle del Cauca), Costa Rica (Alajuela, Cartago, Guanacaste, Heredia, Limón, Puntarenas, San José), El Salvador, Guatemala (Alta Verapaz, Izabal, Zacapa), Honduras (Atlántida, Colón, Cortés, Francisco Morazán, Yoro), Panama (Bocas del Toro, Chiriquí, Coclé, Colón, Panamá, Veraguas), Panama Canal Zone
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