19. Trigona atripes Smith, 1857

Fig. 21

Trigona atripes Smith, 1857: 50, ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

MALAYSIA • ♀; M. Ophir 76 [Mount Ledang]; [13 Jul.–25 Sep. 1854]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2779.

Type locality

Malacca (Mount Ophir) [= Mount Ledang].

Notes

This species was not dealt with by Baker (1993). A single specimen was found in the type collection which has now been labelled as the holotype.

Current status

Tetragonula (Tetragonilla) atripes (Smith, 1857) (Engel et al. 2017) .

Distribution

Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia (Peninsula, Borneo), Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra, Kalimantan) (Rasmussen 2008; Ascher et al. 2022).