Trigona buyssoni Friese, 1902:383, ♀. 4 ♀♀, Callanga (leg. Staudinger); 8 ♀♀, Vileanota (leg. Staudinger). - Schwarz, 1934Schwarz, H.F. 1934. The social bees (Meliponinae) of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. American Museum Novitates 731:1-23. (distribution); Michener, 1954Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176. (distribution). - As Trigonisca buyssoni: - Ayala, 1988Ayala, R. 1988. Abejas silvestres (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) de Chamela, Jalisco, México. Folia Entomológica Mexicana 77:395-493. (distribution); 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); 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).
Trigona townsendi Cockerell, 1911:286, xw. xw, Piura, Peru, October (leg. C.H.T. Townsend). Synonymized with Trigona buyssoni Friese, 1902 by Schwarz, 1934Schwarz, H.F. 1934. The social bees (Meliponinae) of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. American Museum Novitates 731:1-23.:22. - Cockerell, 1913Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Meliponine bees from Central America. Psyche 20:10-14. (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); Cockerell, 1920Cockerell, T.D.A. 1920. Some neotropical Meliponid bees. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 42:459-468. (distribution); Schwarz, 1934Schwarz, H.F. 1934. The social bees (Meliponinae) of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. American Museum Novitates 731:1-23. (distribution).