83. Prosopis elegans Smith, 1865

Fig. 82

Prosopis elegans Smith, 1865: 91, ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • ♀; N. [ New Guinea]; [1861]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2837.

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: 235) 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

Palaeorhiza (Cnemidorhiza) elegantissima (Dalla Torre, 1896) . Prosopis elegans Smith, 1865 is a junior primary homonym of Prosopis elegans Smith, 1853 (described from Australia). Dalla Torre (1896: 22) noticed this, and provided a replacement name.

Distribution

Indonesia (West Papua, Southwest Papua: Misool) (Hirashima & Lieftinck 1982).