Tetragonula valdezi ( Cockerell, 1918 )

Rasmussen, Claus, 2008, Catalog of the Indo-Malayan / Australasian stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini), Zootaxa 1935, pp. 1-80 : 50

Tetragonula valdezi ( Cockerell, 1918)

Trigona valdezi Cockerell 1918: 387 : Holotype (USNM 40249, worker): examined; 3 paratypes (USNM) (distribution, key to species, uncertain identity); Type locality: SINGAPORE "Singapore" (unknown); Cockerell 1919c: 78, 79 (comparative notes, key to species); SINGAPORE; Cockerell 1929c: 592 (comparative note, floral record, taxonomy); CAMBODIA, Angkor; Nan; Pah Meeung; Floral record: Poinsettia ; Cockerell 1934: 62, fig. 6 (illustration (mandible)); Schwarz 1937: 309; Schwarz 1939a: 85, 88, 90, 93, 110, 113, 116, 117, 118 (distribution, key to species, taxonomy); Schwarz 1939b: 151, 152 (distribution, variation); MICRONESIA, Caroline Islands, Toloas; Truk; Cockerell 1939a: 61, 62, 64 (distribution ("presumably introduced by man"), variation); MICRONESIA, Dublon Island; Tarik Island; Schwarz 1948: 118, 233; Krombein 1950: 102, 133, 135 (distribution, morphology); MICRONESIA, Caroline Islands; Schwarz 1951: 63 (distribution); CAMBODIA, Angkor; Mt. Suept; Sakagami 1960: 146 (comparative note); Moure 1961: 208 (morphology, systematic position); Michener 1961: 28 (comparative note); Sakagami & Yoshikawa 1961: 435 (comparative note, distribution); CAMBODIA, Phnom Penh; LAOS, Thakhek; THAILAND, Mae Fack; Baltazar 1966: 407 (distribution); PHILIPPINES, Luzon, Laguna; Mindanao, Davao; Sakagami 1978: 166, 197, 200, 201, 205, 206, 208 (synonymy); Sakagami et al. 1983a: 101 (comparative note); Camargo 1988: 372 (synonymy); Sakagami et al. 1990: 129, 130 (synonymy, variation); Ikudome & Kusigemati 1996: 20 (taxonomy); Wu 2000: 391 (synonymy); Klakasikorn et al. 2005: 6 (citation).