Melipona punctata Ducke, 1901 - Camargo & Moure, 1994Camargo, J.M.F. & J.S. Moure 1994. Meliponinae neotropicais: os gêneros Paratrigona Schwarz, 1938 e Aparatrigona Moure, 1951 (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Arquivos de Zoologia 32 (2):33-109.:83 ( listed as synonym of Aparatrigona impunctata (Ducke, 1916)); Nates-Parra, 2001Nates-Parra, G. 2001. Las abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 2 (3):233-248.:244 ( listed as synonym of Aparatrigona impunctata (Ducke, 1916)).
Melipona impunctata Ducke, 1916:28, Camargo & Moure, 1994Camargo, J.M.F. & J.S. Moure 1994. Meliponinae neotropicais: os gêneros Paratrigona Schwarz, 1938 e Aparatrigona Moure, 1951 (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Arquivos de Zoologia 32 (2):33-109.:84, Lectotype xw (Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Pará Brasil). - As Aparatrigona impunctata: - Camargo & Moure, 1994Camargo, J.M.F. & J.S. Moure 1994. Meliponinae neotropicais: os gêneros Paratrigona Schwarz, 1938 e Aparatrigona Moure, 1951 (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Arquivos de Zoologia 32 (2):33-109. (distribution); Nates-Parra, 2001Nates-Parra, G. 2001. Las abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 2 (3):233-248. (distribution); 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); Nogueira, 2023Nogueira, D.S. 2023. Overview of stingless bees in Brazil (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). EntomoBrasilis 16 (e1041):1-13. (distribution). - As Trigona impunctata: - Schwarz, 1938Schwarz, H.F. 1938. The stingless bees (Meliponidae) of British Guiana and some related forms. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 74 (7):437-508. (distribution); Schwarz, 1940Schwarz, H.F. 1940. Additional species and records of stingless bees (Meliponidae) from British Guiana. American Museum Novitates 1078:1-12. (distribution); Schwarz, 1948Schwarz, H.F. 1948. Stingless bees (Meliponinae) of the Western Hemisphere. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 90:i-xviii, 1-546. (distribution).