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Platytrigona planifrons

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Platytrigona planifrons (Smith, 1865)

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.

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 27

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Smith
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Apidae
Genus
Platytrigona
Species
planifrons
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Platytrigona planifrons (Smith, 1865) sec. Rasmussen, 2008

References

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