Scaptotrigona pectoralis (Dalla Torre, 1896)
Common Names: "kan-tsak", "xnuk", "zagaño", "enredapelos", "soncuano", "cacho-de-venado", "congo-canche", "tenchalita", "kantsak", "alazana", "zacarillo", "soncuán"
Trigona thoracica
Cresson, E. T. (1878). Descriptions of new species of North American bees. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 30: 181-182 [181] (junior homonym of Trigona thoracica Smith, 1857, from Singapore, Malaya.) .
Type data: syntype ANSP ANSP 2176 <F> worker.
Type locality: Mexico, Sumichrast, F..
Trigona pectoralis
Dalla Torre C. G. de (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum; Hucusque Descriptorum Systematicus et Synonymicus. Leipzig: Engelmann Vol. 10 viii+1–643 pp. [582] (nom. nov. for Trigona thoracica Cresson, 1878, non Smith, 1857.) .
Distribution
Nearctic Region: Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Distrito Federal, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz-Llave, Yucatán); Neotropical Region: Belize (Corozal), Costa Rica (Alajuela, Cartago, Guanacaste, Limón, Puntarenas, San José), El Salvador, Guatemala (Baja Verapaz, Escuintla), Honduras (Cortés, Olancho), Nicaragua (Carazo), Panama (Coclé), Panama Canal Zone
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