Trigona testacea Spinola, 1851:93, ♂. Holotype ♂, Para.
Trigona lurida Smith, 1854:410, no descr..Para. Replacement name for Trigona testacea Spinola, 1851 by Smith, 1854Smith, F. 1854. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. London. 465 pp, 8 pl.:410 (nec Klug). - Nates-Parra, 1983Nates-Parra, G. 1983. Abejas de Colombia: I. Lista preliminar de algunas especies de abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponinae). Revista de Biología Tropical 31 (1):155-158. (distribution); Nates-Parra, 2001Nates-Parra, G. 2001. Las abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 2 (3):233-248. (distribution). - As Melipona lurida: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643.:580 (comb. nov.). - As Ptilotrigona lurida: - Pauly et al., 2013Pauly, A., S.R.M. Pedro, C. Rasmussen & D.W. Roubik 2013. Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Meliponini) of French Guiana. In: Vit, P., S.R.M. Pedro & E.W. Roubik (Ed.). Pot-Honey: A legacy of stingless bees. 87-97. (distribution). - As Tetragona lurida: - Nogueira, 2023Nogueira, D.S. 2023. Overview of stingless bees in Brazil (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). EntomoBrasilis 16 (e1041):1-13. (distribution).