Published as part of Rozen, Jerome G., Almeida, Eduardo A. B., Smith, Corey Shepard & Jones, Lance Eric, 2021, Intratribal Variation among Mature Larvae of Stingless Bees (Apidae: Meliponini) with Descriptions of the Eggs of 11 Species in American Museum Novitates 2021 (3971), DOI: 10.1206/3971.1

LESTRIMELITTA LIMAO (SMITH) Figures 7, 32B The postdefecating larva of this species (fig. 7) is almost identical to that of Lestrimelitta glabrata (fig. 7) described above, although the apical breadth of the mandible may be slightly wider and tapers to blunt (non-spoon-shaped) apex (fig. 32B).