88. Trigona planifrons Smith, 1865

Fig. 87

Trigona planifrons Smith, 1865: 93–94, ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • ♀ (worker); N. [New Guinea]; [1861]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2842.

Type locality

New Guinea. Allen visited the area around Sorong in West Papua (probably) in the first half of 1861 (Wallace 1869; Baker 1993), and so the type locality can be considered to be Indonesia (West Papua).

Notes

Baker (1993: 236) identified this specimen as the holotype and stated that he labelled it, but we found no type label; this has now been rectified.

Current status

Heterotrigona (Platytrigona) planifrons (Smith, 1865) (Engel & Rasmussen 2017) .

Distribution

Indonesia (West Papua) and Papua New Guinea (Rasmussen 2008; Ascher & Pickering 2024).