Trigona musarum Cockerell, 1917:123, xw. Holotype xw, Philadelphia Banana R. (U.S.Nat.Museum, leg. F. Knab). - 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, 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.:475 ( listed as synonym of Trigona testacea testacea (Klug, 1807)). - As Partamona musarum: - Camargo & Pedro, 2003Camargo, J.M.F. & S.R.M. Pedro 2003. Meliponini neotropicais: o gênero Partamona Schwarz, 1939 (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae) - bionomia e biogeografia. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 47 (3):311-372. (distribution); Pedro & Camargo, 2003Pedro, S.R.M. & J.M.F. Camargo 2003. Meliponini Neotropicais: o gênero Partamona Schwarz, 1939 (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Revista Brasileira de Biología 47 (supl. 1):1-117. (distribution); Gonzalez et al., 2012Gonzalez, V.H., J.S. Ascher & M.S. Engel 2012. A new Stelis (Dolichostelis) from northern Colombia (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): first records for South America and a synopsis of the bee fauna from the Caribbean region of Colombia. Journal of Natural History 46 (47-48):2919-2934. (distribution). - As Partamona peckolti musarum: - Camargo, 1980Camargo, J.M.F. 1980. O grupo Partamona (Partamona) testacea (Klug): suas espécies, distribuição e diferenciação geográfica (Meliponinae, Apidae, Hymenoptera). Acta Amazonica 10 (4, supl.):1-175. (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). - As Trigona testacea musarum: - 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); Michener, 1954Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176. (distribution); 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); Maes, 1993Maes, J.-M. 1993. Catalogo de los Apoidea (Hymenoptera) de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 26:11-30. (distribution).