Trigona mellarius Smith, 1862:42, xw. xw, Panama. - Cresson, 1879Cresson, E.T. 1879. Catalogue of North American Apidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 7:215-232. (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.:500 ( listed as synonym of Trigona punctata Smith, 1854). - As Melipona mellaria: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution), 581 (comb. nov.). - As Nannotrigona mellaria: - Nates-Parra, 2001Nates-Parra, G. 2001. Las abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 2 (3):233-248. (distribution); Smith-Pardo, 2003Smith-Pardo, A.H. 2003. A preliminary account of the bees of Colombia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea): present knowledge and future directions. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 76 (2):335-341. (distribution); Nates-Parra et al., 2006Nates-Parra, G., Á. Rodríguez-C. & E.D. Vélez 2006. Abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) en cementerios de la Cordillera Oriental de Colombia. Acta biol. Colomb. 11 (1):25-35. (distribution); Smith-Pardo & Gonzalez, 2007Smith-Pardo, A.H. & V.H. Gonzalez 2007. Diversidad de abejas (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) en estados sucesionales del bosque húmedo tropical. Acta biol. Colomb. 12 (1):43-56. (distribution); Jarau & Barth, 2008Jarau, S. F.G. Barth 2008. Stingless bees of the Golfo Dulce region, Costa Rica (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae, Meliponini). Stapfia 88:267-276. (distribution); Nates-Parra & Rosso-Londoño, 2013Nates-Parra, G. & J.M. Rosso-Londoño 2013. Diversidad de abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Meliponini) utilizadas en meliponicultura en Colombia. Acta biol. Colomb. 18 (3):415-426. (distribution); Ngo et al., 2013Ngo, H.T., J. Gibbs, T. Griswold & L. Packer 2013. Evaluating bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) diversity using Malaise traps in coffee landscapes of Costa Rica. The Canadian Entomologist 145:435-453. (distribution). - As Trigona mellaria: - Cockerell, 1911Cockerell, T.D.A. 1911. Descriptions and records of bees. - XXXVIII. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 8 (44):283-290. (distribution); Cockerell, 1912Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. - XLVI. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 10 (57):311-320. (distribution); 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); Maes, 1993Maes, J.-M. 1993. Catalogo de los Apoidea (Hymenoptera) de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 26:11-30. (distribution). - As Trigona mellaria mellaria: - Michener, 1954Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176. (distribution).
Common names
- Angelita