Trigona subgrisea Cockerell, 1920:465, xw. 2 xww, East of the Cotinga River, Brazil, August 10 (leg. Crampton), Lectotype (Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Dept. Invert. Zool., n° 24500), designated by Camargo & Moure, 1996Camargo, J.M.F. & J.S. Moure 1996. Meliponini neotropicais: o gênero Geotrigona Moure, 1943 (Apinae, Apidae, Hymenoptera), com especial referência à filogenia e biogeografia. Arquivos de Zoologia 33 (3):95-161.:139. - Nates-Parra, 2001Nates-Parra, G. 2001. Las abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 2 (3):233-248. (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). - As Geotrigona subgrisea: - Gonzalez & Engel, 2012Gonzalez, V.H. & M.S. Engel 2012. A new species of Geotrigona Moure from the Caribbean coast of Colombia (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 172:77-87. (distribution); Nogueira, 2023Nogueira, D.S. 2023. Overview of stingless bees in Brazil (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). EntomoBrasilis 16 (e1041):1-13. (distribution). - As Geotrigona subgrisea subgrisea: - Camargo & Moure, 1996Camargo, J.M.F. & J.S. Moure 1996. Meliponini neotropicais: o gênero Geotrigona Moure, 1943 (Apinae, Apidae, Hymenoptera), com especial referência à filogenia e biogeografia. Arquivos de Zoologia 33 (3):95-161. (distribution). - As Trigona subgrisea subgrisea: - 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).