Platytrigona planifrons
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Trigona planifrons Smith 1865: 93-94: Holotype (OUMNH, worker): According to Baker (1993) the specimen is labeled " 'N' [New Guinea (Allen); white disc] and ' Trigona planifrons 'Smith' ". The BMNH "type" (17b.1180) indicated by Moure (1961), is not a true type (Baker, 1993). The planifrons species group (taxonomy); Type locality: INDONESIA (IRIAN JAYA) "New Guinea" (worker); Smith 1871: 396 (distribution); "NEW GUINEA"; Dalla Torre 1896: 582 (citation); Friese 1898: 427, 428 (citation, key to species); MALAYSIA, Malacca (misidentification); "NEW GUINEA"; Friese 1909("1908"): 354, 356, fig. 15-8 (distribution); INDONESIA, Irian Jaya / PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Digul Fluss; Etna Bai; Jamur Gebiet; Manikion; Manokwari; Merauke; Moaif; Tawarin; Friese 1909: 272, 273, 274 (distribution, key to species); INDONESIA, Irian Jaya / PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Digul Fluss; Etna Bai; Janour Gebiet; Manokwari; Merauke, Moaif; Tawarin; Friese 1915: 4 (distribution); INDONESIA, Irian Jaya / PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Digul Fluss; Etna Bai; Manikion; Manokwari; Merauke; Moaif; Sattelberg; Sekofro; Simbang; Tawarin; Tjahe Fluss; Zoutbron; Cockerell 1923: 241 (key to species); Cockerell 1929e: 242 (comparative note, distribution); PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Fly River; Mt. Lamington; Schwarz 1948: 83, 109, 118; Moure 1961: 203, 204 (systematic position); Michener 1965: 231 (citation); Camargo 1988: 372 (distribution); PAPUA NEW GUINEA, N. Guinea, Simbang, Huon Golf; Michener 1990: 88, 105, 120, 127, 153 (illustration, morphology, systematic position); Michener & Roubik 1993: 260 (comparative note, morphology); Cunha 1994: (systematics); Michener 1997: 48 (type species); Michener 2000: 800-801; Hohmann 2003: (communication, nest); Michener 2007a: 824, 826.
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- Smith
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- Animalia
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- Arthropoda
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- Hymenoptera
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- Apidae
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- Platytrigona
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- planifrons
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- Platytrigona planifrons (Smith, 1865) sec. Rasmussen, 2008
References
- 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.
- Moure, J. S. (1961) A preliminary supra-specific classification of the old world meliponine bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Studia Entomologica, 4, 181 - 242.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cockerell, T. D. A. (1929 e) Bees in the Australian Museum collection. Records of the Australian Museum, 17, 199 - 243.
- 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.
- Camargo, J. M. F. (1988) Meliponinae (Hymenoptera, Apidae) da colecao do " Instituto di entomologia agraria ", Portici, Italia. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 32, 351 - 374.
- 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.
- Michener, C. D. & Roubik, D. W. (1993). Observations on the labium of Meliponine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). In: T. Inoue & S. Yamane (Eds.), Evolution of insect societies, Hakuhinsha, Tokyo, pp. 251 - 266.
- Cunha, R. A. d. (1994) Estudo fenetico supra - especifico de Trigonini do Velho Mundo (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 38, 613 - 626.
- Michener, C. D. (1997) Genus-group names of bees and supplemental family-group names. Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, 1 - 81.
- Michener, C. D. (2000) The bees of the world. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, xiv + [1] + 913.
- Hohmann, H. (2003) Zur Kommunikation stachelloser Bienen in Neuguinea. TenDenZen (Jahrbuch Uberseemuseum Bremen), 11, 9 - 26.
- Michener, C. D. (2007 a) The bees of the world, second edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, xvi + 953.