Lestrimelitta spinosa Marchi & Melo, 2006
Lestrimelitta spinosa
Marchi, P. & Melo, G. A. R. (2006). Revisão taxonômica das espécies brasileiras de abelhas do gênero Lestrimelitta Friese (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponina). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 50 (1): 6-30 [23] .
Type data: holotype DZUP <F> worker (1) , paratype DZUP <F> workers, <M> males , paratype AMNH <F> workers, <M> males.
Type locality: Lago Caetano, rio Trombetas, Pará, Brasil, 10.III.1998, F. A. J. Peralta.
Etymology: from the Latin, spinosus, with thick setae on the pronotal lobes, tegulae and mesepisterna.
Distribution
Neotropical Region: Brazil (Pará [Oriximiná]), Guyana (Barima-Waini), Trinidad and Tobago
References
Gonzalez, V. H., Rasmussen, C. & Velasquez, A. (2010). Una especie nueva de Lestrimelitta y un cambio de nombre en Lasioglossum (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Halictidae). Rev. Colomb. Entomol. 36: 319-324 [321] (castes decribed, geographic range, citation)
Marchi, P. & Melo, G. A. R. (2006). Revisão taxonômica das espécies brasileiras de abelhas do gênero Lestrimelitta Friese (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponina). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 50 (1): 6-30 [8, 9, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23-25, 26, 28] (keys: worker, male, comparative notes, synonymy, diagnosis, description: worker, male, geographic records, geographic range, figures: head, thorax)
Roig Alsina, A. (2010). Notas sistemáticas sobre abejas Meliponini del Chaco (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 12: 99-106 [103, 104] (taxonomic characters, citation, comparative notes)
Schwarz, H. F. (1938). The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of British Guiana and some related forms. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 74: 437-508 [441, 451] (as Trigona (Lestrimelitta) limão [sic], key, geographic records)
Schwarz, H. F. (1948). Stingless bees (Meliponidae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 90: xvii+546 [51, 95, 183, 191] (as Lestrimelitta limao, partim [Trinidad, British Guiana], nest, queens, males, workers, inquilines (inside projections of nest entrance): gamasid mites, queens [from Trinidad], citation, geographic records [partim: Trinidad, British Guiana])
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