Trigona punctata Smith, 1854:409, xw. xw, Brazil (Para) (B.M.). - Friese, 1903Friese, H. 1903. Neue Meliponiden II. Zeitschrift für systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 3:359-361. (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). - As Melipona punctata: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution), 582 (comb. nov.). - As Nannotrigona punctata: - Cockerell, 1922Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Bees in the collection of the United States National Museum. 4. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2413):1-20.:9 (comb. nov.); 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 testaceicornis punctata: - 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).
Trigona perilampoides Cresson, 1878:181, xw. 5 xww, Mexico (American Entomology Society, leg. Sumichrast); Ayala, 1999Ayala, R. 1999. Revisión de las abejas sin aguin de México (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Folia Entomológica Mexicana 106:1-123.:49, Type (ANSP). - 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); Cockerell, 1899Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Catálogo de las Abejas de Mexico. Biblioteca Agricola de las Secretaria de Fomento, Mexico, 1-20. (distribution); Cockerell, 1913Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Meliponine bees from Central America. Psyche 20:10-14. (distribution); Friese, 1916Friese, H. 1916. Zur Bienenfauna von Costa Rica. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 77:287-348. (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); 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). - As Melipona perilampoides: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution), 582 (comb. nov.). - As Nannotrigona perilampoides: - Cockerell, 1922Cockerell, T.D.A. 1922. Bees in the collection of the United States National Museum. 4. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2413):1-20.:9 (comb. nov.); Ayala, 1999Ayala, R. 1999. Revisión de las abejas sin aguin de México (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini). Folia Entomológica Mexicana 106:1-123. (distribution); Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004Yáñez-Ordóñez, O. & I. Hinojosa-Díaz 2004. La colección himenopterológica (Insecta) del Museo de Zoología Alfonso L. Herrera de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) 20 (1):167-197. (distribution); Ayala et al., 2014Ayala, R., V.H. Gonzalez & M.S. Engel 2014. Mexican stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae): Diversity, distribution, and indigenous knowledge. In: Vit, P., S. Pedro, D. Roubik (Ed.). Pot-Honey. . (distribution); Moreno et al., 2017Moreno Jiménez, M. S. Sánchez Soto, E. García López, J. Romero Nápoles, J.L. Knowlton, C. Phifer, D. Flaspohler & A. de J. Jiménez Méndez 2017. Diversidad y abundancia de abejas (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) en agroecosistemas de palma aceitera y pastos cultivados, en Tabasco, México. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 115:3-20. (distribution); Arnold et al., 2018Arnold, N., R. Ayala, J. Mérida, P. Sagot, M. Aldasoro & R. Vandame 2018. Registros nuevos de abejas sin aguijón (Apidae: Meliponini) para los estados de Chiapas y Oaxaca, México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 89:651-665. (distribution); Sagot et al., 2018Sagot, P, J. Mérida, R. Ayala & R. Vandame 2018. Situación actual del conocimiento de la fauna de abejas (Apoidea: Anthophila) del estado de Chiapas, México. In: (Ed.). Memorias X Congreso Mesoamericano sobre Abejas Nativas. 191-2011. (distribution); Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022Nava-Bolaños, A. & L. Osorio-Olvera 2022. Estado del arte del conocimiento de biodiversidad de los polinizadores de México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 93:1-77. (distribution). - As Nannotrigona testaceicornis perilamboides: - 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). - As Trigona testaceicornis perilampoides: - Michener, 1946Michener, C.D. 1946. Notes on the habits of some Panamanian stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 54 (3):179-197. (biology, distribution); Cockerell, 1949Cockerell, T.D.A. 1949. Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 98 (No. 3233):429-490. (distribution); Michener, 1954Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176. (distribution).