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Trigonisca discolor (Wille, 1965)
Trigona (Trigonisca) discolor Wille, A. (1965). A new species of stingless bee (Meliponini) from Costa Rica. Rev. Biol. Trop. 13 (1): 139-141 [140] .
Type data: holotype UCR <F> worker , paratype UCR <F> workers (5) , paratype SEMK <F> workers (4) , paratype DZUP <F> workers (4).
Type locality: Pozo Azul, San Jose, Costa Rica, 9.XI.1961, A. Wille leg..

Trigona (Trigonisca) rhodopta Wille, A. & C. D. Michener (1973). The nest architecture of stingless bees with special reference to those of Costa Rica. Rev. Biol. Trop. 21 (Suplemento 1): 1-278 [265, 268] (nom. nud.) .

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Costa Rica (San José)

References

Albuquerque, P. M. C. (1992). Revisão do gênero Trigonisca Moure, 1950 (Meliponinae, Apidae, Hymenoptera). [dissertation abstract] pp. 16-17 in Soares, A. E. E. & De Jong, D. (ed.) Pesquisas com abelhas no Brasil. Ribeirão Preto: Revista Brasileira de Genética 680 pp. [17] (note)
Albuquerque, P. M. C. & Camargo, J. M. F. (2007). Espécies novas de Trigonisca Moure (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 51 (2): 160-175 [160] (list)
Griswold, T., Parker, F. D. & Hanson, P. E. (1995). The bees (Apidae) pp. 650-691 in Hanson, P. E. & Gauld, I. D. (ed.) The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica. London: Natural History Museum 893 pp. [650, 690] (body size, list; as Trigonisca rhodopta, list)
Wille, A. & C. D. Michener (1973). The nest architecture of stingless bees with special reference to those of Costa Rica. Rev. Biol. Trop. 21 (Suplemento 1): 1-278 [11, 20, 33, 55, 66, 125, 136, 265, 268] (as Trigona (Trigonisca) sp. B and Trigona (Trigonisca) rhodopta, nesting site: slender tubular tree cavity, geographic record, nest characteristics, figure: nest, nest population, honey, nest characters)

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