Lepidotrigona ventralis ( Smith, 1857 )

Rasmussen, Claus, 2008, Catalog of the Indo-Malayan / Australasian stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini), Zootaxa 1935, pp. 1-80 : 20-21

Lepidotrigona ventralis ( Smith, 1857)

Trigona ventralis Smith 1857: 50 : Type ( BMNH 17 b.1186); Mt. Ophir specimen is latebalteata . The ventra-

lis species group (taxonomy); Type locality: MALAYSIA "Borneo (Sarawak)"; " Malacca (Mt. Ophir)" (worker); Smith 1871: 395 (distribution); MALAYSIA, Borneo; Malacca; Gribodo 1891: 109 (comparative note); Dalla Torre 1896: 584 (citation); Bingham 1897: 560, 562-563 (distribution, key to species, taxonomy); MALAYSIA, Borneo, Malacca; MYANMAR, Tenasserim; Strand 1913b: 66 (morphology); Cockerell 1915: 3 (comparative notes); Cockerell 1919c: 79 (comparative note); Cockerell 1923: 241 (key to species); Cockerell 1929c: 591 (comparative note); Friese 1933b: 147 (comparative note); Schwarz 1937: 282, 283, 284, 287, 294-295*, 296, 326, plate 3, 7 (key to species, taxonomy); Schwarz 1939a: 85, 94, 134*, 135, 136, 139 (distribution, key to species, taxonomy); Schwarz 1948: 118; Moure 1961: 199 (systematic position); Sakagami 1975: 66, 67-75* (distribution, morphology, variation); CAM- BODIA; LAOS; MALAYSIA; THAILAND; VIETNAM; Sakagami 1978: 239 (comparative note); Sakagami 1982: 400, 412 (reproduction); Sakagami & Yamane 1984: 38, 47; Sakagami et al. 1985: (distribution, key to species); Sakagami & Yamane 1987: 17, 25 (comparative note); Michener 1990: 122 (systematic position); Sakagami et al. 1990: (distribution, key to species); CAMBODIA; INDIA ; INDONESIA, Java; Sumatra; MALAYSIA; MYANMAR; THAILAND; Salmah et al. 1990: (distribution, nest); INDONESIA, Sumatera Barat; Inoue et al. 1990b: (population); Michener & Roubik 1993: 260 (comparative note, morphology); Yong 1993: (biochemistry); Roubik 1996: 61 (distribution); BRU- NEI, Kuala Belalong; Nagamitsu & Inoue 1997: 434, 435, 436 (pollination); Floral record: Santiria laevigata ; Nagamitsu & Inoue 1998: (foraging, morphology); Liow 1999: 106, 110, 127 (distribution (as ventra! in part)); Nagamitsu et al. 1999: (floral records (not by species), foraging); Rajitparinya 2000: (distribution, nest); Rajitparinya 2000: (distribution, nest); Wu 2000: 386, 387-388 (key to species, morphology); Liow et al. 2001: 184; Costa et al. 2003: (systematics); Biesmeijer & Slaa 2004: 148 (citation, foraging); Eltz 2004: 322 (abundance); Samejima et al. 2004: (population); MALAYSIA, Sarawak, Miri, Upper Baram area; Velthuis et al. 2005: 171 (citation); Nagamitsu & Inoue 2005: 76, 82, 83, 84, 85, plate 9 (distribution, foraging); Chinh et al. 2005: 363, 364, 366, 368-370, 371 (nest (see flavibasis )); VIETNAM, Cucphuong National Forest, Red river delta; Chinh & Sommeijer 2005: (see flavibais); Roubik 2005: 96 (distribution, food niche); Klakasikorn et al. 2005: 6 (citation (as ventalis! )); Santos- Filho et al. 2006: 208, 217 (citation); Inson & Malaipan 2006: (distribution, foraging, nest); THAI- LAND, Kanchanaburi, Thong Pha Phum; Sung et al. 2006c: (see hoosana); Rasmussen & Cameron 2007: (systematics); Wattanachaiyingcharoen & Jongjitvimol 2007: 73 (comparative note).

Lepidotrigona indet. Drumond et al. 1996a: 399 (behavioral comparison); Roubik 2006: 127 (nest).

" Trigona (Lepidotrigona) ventralis " nigribasis forma nov. Sakagami 1975: 71: Nomen nudum. The name is unavailable for taxonomic purposes, as it must be deemed to be infrasubspecific (ICZN, art. 15.2 and 45.6.3.) (variation); VIETNAM.

Melipona tunneli Pugh 1947: 62 : Nomen nudum. The name is unavailable for taxonomic purposes, as no description or definition of the taxon was provided (ICZN, art. 13.1.1). The statement that it "is different from the other two in appearance as it possesses somewhat yellow spots in the abdomen", however, could make it a nomen dubium, although most likely then a junior synonymon of arcifera (common name (ngap siwor), honey, nest).