Lestrimelitta rufa (Friese, 1903)

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

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) .

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).