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Description
Platytrigona atricornis (Smith, 1865)
Trigona atricornis Smith 1865: 94: Holotype (OUMNH, worker): According to Baker (1993) the specimen is labeled " 'N' [New Guinea (Allen); white disc] and ' Trigona atricornis' 'Smith' ". The atricornis species group (taxonomy); Type locality: INDONESIA (IRIAN JAYA) "New Guinea" (worker); Smith 1871: 396 (distribution); "NEW GUINEA"; Gribodo 1893: 263 (comparative note); Dalla Torre 1896: 576 (citation); Friese 1898: 428, 429 (citation, key to species); "NEW GUINEA"; Friese 1898: 429 (comparative note); Friese 1909: 272, 273, 277-278 (citation, key to species); Friese 1915: 4 (distribution); INDONESIA, Irian Jaya, Jasa; Njao; Cockerell 1923: 240 (key to species); Schwarz 1948: 117; Michener 1965: 231 (citation); Michener 1990: 127, 153-156 (distribution, illustration, morphology, systematic position).
Notes
Published as part of Rasmussen, Claus, 2008, Catalog of the Indo-Malayan / Australasian stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini), pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 1935 on page 26
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Additional details
- Smith, F. (1865) Descriptions of new species of Hymenopterous insects from the Islands of Sumatra, Sula, Gilolo, Salwatty, and New Guinea, collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean society, Zoology, 8, 61 - 94, plate 4.
- Baker, D. B. (1993) The type material of the nominal species of exotic bees described by Frederick Smith (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Oxford University, Oxford, UK, (i) - vi, 1 - 311, 14 pl.
- Smith, F. (1871) A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the eastern archipelago. By F. Smith, with introductory remarks by A. R. Wallace. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Zoology, 11, 285 - 415.
- Gribodo, G. (1893) Note imenotterologische. Nota II. Nuovi generi e nuove specie di imenotteri antofili ed osservazioni sopra alcune specie gia conosciute. Bollettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana, Genova, 25, 248 - 287.
- Dalla Torre, K. W. v. (1896) Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 10, Apidae (Anthophila). G. Engelmann, Leipzig, 643.
- Friese, H. (1898) Die Trigona - Arten Australiens. Termeszetrajzi Fuzetek, 21, 427 - 431.
- Friese, H. (1915) Apiden aus Nord-Neu-Guinea gesammelt von Dr. P. N. van Kampen und K. Gjellerup, in den Jahren 1910 und 1911. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 58, 1 - 4.
- Cockerell, T. D. A. (1923) Descriptions and records of bees. - XCVIII. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, [9] 12, 238 - 247.
- Schwarz, H. F. (1948) Stingless bees (Meliponidae) of the western hemisphere. Lestrimelitta and the following subgenera of Trigona: Trigona, Paratrigona, Schwarziana, Parapartamona, Cephalotrigona, Oxytrigona, Scaura, and Mourella. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 90, 1 - 546.
- Michener, C. D. (1965) A classification of the bees of the Australian and south Pacific regions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 130, 1 - 362.
- Michener, C. D. (1990) Classification of the Apidae (Hymenoptera). Appendix: Trigona genalis Friese, a hitherto unplaced New Guinea species. University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 54, 75 - 163.