Austroplebeia cassiae ( Cockerell, 1910 )

Rasmussen, Claus, 2008, Catalog of the Indo-Malayan / Australasian stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini), Zootaxa 1935, pp. 1-80 : 8-9

Austroplebeia cassiae ( Cockerell, 1910)

Trigona cassiae Cockerell 1910: 247 : Holotype (BMNH 17b.1137, worker): examined, "Type" (red border), "B.M. TYPE / HYM. / 14B.1137", " Trigona / cassiae / Ckll TYPE", "Turner Coll. / 1912-111", "Mackay / 12.99 / Cassia ", "900"; paratype in "Rayment collection" (not located) (comparative notes, floral record, taxonomy); Type locality: AUSTRALIA "Mackay, Queensland, Dec. 1899 (Turner, 900)" (worker); male, Nov. 1891 (Turner, 318); Floral record: Cassia ; Hockings 1884: (common name (kootchar), honey, morphology, nest (hollow trees) (as kootchar only; identification uncertain)); Cockerell 1922a: 279 (distribution); Cockerell 1929d: 299, 301 (common name (kootchar), distribution, nest (tree hollows), parasite? ( Ceria cf. ornatifrons: Syrphidae : Diptera )); AUSTRALIA, Brisbane; Cockerell 1930b: 150 (common name (kootchar), comparative note, floral record, nest); Floral record: Cassia ; Eucalyptus ;

Rayment 1930: 59 (comparative note); Rayment 1932a: 185 (common name (koochee)); Rayment 1932d: (honey, pollen, wax); Rayment 1932b: (nest); Rayment 1932c: (behavioral comparison); Rayment 1932e; Rayment 1932f: 105, 106 (comparative note); Rayment 1935: 735-736 (comparative note, key to species, taxonomy); Schwarz 1939a: 103 (synonymy); Schwarz 1948: 4, 23, 24, 29, 31, 32, 37, 38, 41, 62, 67, 68, 75-77, 80, 84, 91, 97, 107, 117, 134, 166; Moure et al. 1958: 484 (citation); Moure 1961: 195, 196, 197 (systematic position); Michener 1961: 5 (synonymy); Wille 1961: 117, 121, 125, 129; Darchen & Louis 1961: 21 (nest); Michener 1965: 230 (citation); Darchen 1969: 462 (illustration, physiology); Wille & Michener 1973: 10 (synonymy); Camargo 1988: 372 (distribution); AUSTRALIA, Queensland; Michener 1990: 96, 101, 105, 133, 134 (illustration, morphology, systematic position); Sakagami et al. 1990: 131 (see cacciae ); Michener & Roubik 1993: 259, 262 (comparative note, morphology); Cardale 1993: 318-319 (distribution, floral record, list); AUSTRALIA, NE coastal; Queensland; Brisbane; Caloundra; Mackay; Floral record: Cassia ; Eucalyptus ; Cunha 1994: (systematics); Michener 1997: 10 (type species); Michener 2000: 791; Nagamitsu & Inoue 2005: 76 (distribution, foraging); Michener 2007a: 815.