39. Prosopis malachisis Smith, 1859

Fig. 40

Prosopis malachisis Smith, 1859: 132, ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • ♀; Ké [Kai]; [1–6 Jan. 1857]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2798.

Type locality

Key Island [= Kai].

Notes

Baker (1993: 204) wrote the following:

“A ♀ in the UMO type collection, labelled ‘Ke’ [white disc] and ‘ Prosopis malachisis Smith’ is the HOLOTYPE of this species and it has now been labelled accordingly. The type lacks leg L I and the apical tarsal segments of legs R I and R II.

Hirashima (1978: 112) redescribed the ♀ from a specimen from Key in the University of Kansas [he apparently did not see the UMO specimen, and gave (p. 114) ‘ Type depository: British Museum (Natural History), London’] and described the supposed ♀ from a specimen from Amboina in the Smithsonian Institution”.

The specimen indicated by Baker was not labelled as holotype; this has now been rectified. Hirashima’s comment is surprising, because he visited the OUMNH collection in 1967 (Hirashima 1980: 114).

Current status

Palaeorhiza (Palaeorhiza) malachisis Smith, 1859 (Hirashima 1978).

Distribution

Indonesia (Maluku: Kai, Ambon) (Smith 1859; Michener 1965; Hirashima 1978).