Scaptotrigona mexicana (Guérin, 1844)
Common Names: "congo-negro", "negrita", "negro"
Trigona mexicana
Guérin-Méneville, F. E. (1844). Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non encore figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux; pouvant servir d'atlas à tous les traités de Zoologie. Paris: Baillière, J. B. Vol. 3 xxix+ 653, plates 2 pp. [464] (as "Trigone mexicaine") .
Type data: Type MNHP <F> worker (Probably deposited in MNHP).
Type locality: Mexico.
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Mexico (Chiapas, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Morelos, México, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz-Llave); Neotropical Region: Belize (Cayo), Costa Rica (Cartago), El Salvador, Guatemala (Alta Verapaz)
References
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Dalla Torre C. G. de (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum; Hucusque Descriptorum Systematicus et Synonymicus. Leipzig: Engelmann Vol. 10 viii+1–643 pp. [581] (as Melipona mexicana, list)
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