Melipona prosopiformis Gribodo, 1893:259, 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.:81, Holotype xw (Museo Civico de Storia Naturale de Gênova, Itália). - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution). - As Paratrigona prosopiformis: - 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); 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); Nogueira, 2023Nogueira, D.S. 2023. Overview of stingless bees in Brazil (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). EntomoBrasilis 16 (e1041):1-13. (distribution). - As Trigona prosopiformis: - 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).
Trigona longicollis Friese, 1903:360 - 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.:80 ( listed as synonym of Paratrigona prosopiformis (Gribodo, 1893)).