Lestrimelitta rufa ( Friese, 1903 )

Guevara, Diego A., Gonzalez, Victor H. & Ospina, Rodulfo, 2020, Stingless robber bees of the genus Lestrimelitta in Colombia (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini), Caldasia 42 (1), pp. 17-29 : 25

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.15446/caldasia.v42n1.75511
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15312264
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D2A673-FFC0-8F2E-FCA3-FD41FA38FA10
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Lestrimelitta rufa ( Friese, 1903 )
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Lestrimelitta rufa ( Friese, 1903) View in CoL

Trigona (Lestrimelitta) limao rufa Friese, 1903: 361 View in CoL [♀]

Material examined. COLOMBIA. Caquetá: 4♀, San Vicente del Caguán, Ciudad Yari, Puerto Mosco 2, 1°51’20.6’’ N 74°05’24.9’’ W, 194 m [msnm], 17 mar. 2017, Col E. Henao / 28282, -85, -87, -88 ( LABUN) GoogleMaps .

Comments. This species is currently known from Bolivia, Brazil, and Ecuador ( Gonzalez and Griswold 2012). A specimen from Peru in the SEMC, with the following label data, has been identified as L. limao : PERU. Junin: Dept. Villa-Oxapampa Rd., 1050 m, 10°48’36” S, 75°19’54” W, 18 OCT 1999, R. Brooks, PERU 1B99 053, ex. Under stones along creek / SM0144188. However, this specimen belongs to L. rufa and thus, this species is newly recorded from Peru. The records provided here expand the geographical range of the species. Lestrimelitta rufa occurs in the Amazon region of Colombia ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 ).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Apidae
Tribe	Meliponini
Genus	Lestrimelitta