Melipona variegatipes Gribodo, 1893:254 - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); Ashmead, 1900Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Report upon the aculeate Hymenoptera of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London pt. II:207-367. (distribution); Crawford, 1914Crawford, J.C. 1914. Hymenoptera, superfamilies Apoidea and Chalcidoidea, of the Yale-Dominican expedition of 1913. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47:131-134. (distribution); Friese, 1916Friese, H. 1916. Beitrag zur Bienenfauna der Kleinen Antillen und der Bermudas. Zoologische Jahrbücher Suppl. 11:34-40. (distribution); Cockerell, 1919Cockerell, T.D.A. 1919. Bees in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 55 (2264):167-221. (distribution); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641. (distribution); Gibbs, 2012Gibbs, J. 2012. A new species of Habralictus Moure from Dominica, Lesser Antilles (Hymenoptera, Halictidae). ZooKeys 168:1-12. (distribution); Meurgey, 2016Meurgey, F. 2016. Bee species and their associated flowers in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, La Désirade, Marie Galante, St Barthelemy and Martinique) (Hymenoptera: Anthophila: Apoidea). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 52 (4):209-232. (distribution); Meurgey & Ramage, 2020Meurgey, F. & T. Ramage 2020. Challenging the Wallacean shortfall: A total assessment of insect diversity on Guadeloupe (French West Indies), a checklist and bibliography. Insecta Mundi 786:1-183. (distribution).
Melipona rufipes Friese, 1900 - Meurgey, 2016Meurgey, F. 2016. Bee species and their associated flowers in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, La Désirade, Marie Galante, St Barthelemy and Martinique) (Hymenoptera: Anthophila: Apoidea). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 52 (4):209-232.:216 ( listed as synonym of Melipona variegatipes Gribodo, 1893).