Tetragonula geissleri ( Cockerell, 1918 )

Rasmussen, Claus, 2008, Catalog of the Indo-Malayan / Australasian stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini), Zootaxa 1935, pp. 1-80 : 38

Tetragonula geissleri ( Cockerell, 1918)

Trigona confusella Cockerell 1919b: 242 : Holotype (USNM 40248) (taxonomy, previously identified as T. geissleri (in Cockerell 1918)); Type locality: SINGAPORE "Singapore (Baker)" (worker); Schwarz 1937: 282, 290, 311-313* (key to species, taxonomy); Schwarz 1939a: 101, 117 (synonymy); Moure 1961: 209 (synonymy); Sakagami 1978: 195, 196 (synonymy).

Trigona geissleri Cockerell 1918: 385-386 , 387: Unknown: Cockerell used a Friese manuscript name for his description (key to species, distribution, manuscript name of Friese, taxonomy, variation); Type locality: MALAYSIA "Sintang, North Borneo" (male); "Singapore by Baker" (couple of workers); Cockerell 1919b: 242 (taxonomy, variation); MALAYSIA, Sandakan; Cockerell 1920b: 228 (distribution); MALAYSIA, Sandakan; Schwarz 1937: 311, 312, 313, 327; Schwarz 1939a: 85, 90, 95, 109, 114, 115, 117-119*, 120, 136 (distribution, key to species, taxonomy (probably several distinct species were included here)); Schwarz 1948: 83, 118, 233; Moure 1961: 209 (morphology, systematic position); Sakagami & Yoshikawa 1961: 435, 436 (comparative note, distribution, taxonomy); LAOS, Thakhek; Yoshikawa et al. 1969: 172, 173 (distribution); BRUNEI; MALAYSIA, Cameron Highland, Pahang; Fraser's Hill, Selagor-Pahang; Touaran; Kampong Astana, near Kuching; Sakagami 1978: 166-194, 195- 198*, 199, 200, 208, 209, 210, 226, 227, 228, 231, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239 (taxonomy); MALAY- SIA; SINGAPORE; THAILAND; Appanah 1982: (pollination); MALAYSIA, Negri Sembiran, Pasoh Forest Reserve; Floral record: Xerospermum intermedium ; Sakagami et al. 1983b: 11, 20 (nest); Sakagami & Inoue 1985: 177 (comparative note); Sakagami et al. 1985: (distribution, key to species); Appanah et al. 1986: (foraging, nest); Floral record: Calamus ; Calophyllum ; Elaeis ; Sakagami & Khoo 1987: 208, 209, 210, 211, 212 (morphology); Sakagami & Inoue 1987: 625, 626 (morphology); Starr & Sakagami 1987: 97 (citation); Camargo 1988: 371 (distribution); MALAYSIA, Borneo, Sandakan; Sakagami et al. 1990: 128, 131 (distribution, misidentification); Oldroyd et al. 1992: 5 (pollination); THAI- LAND, Chanthaburi; Floral record: Archontophoenix alexandrae ; Roubik 1995: 151 (antropogenic nest); Roubik 1996: 61 (distribution); BRUNEI, Kuala Belalong; Bruijn & Sommeijer 1997: 44 (citation (as geisslerrii! )); Liow 1999: 106, 127 (distribution (as geisslerei! in part)); Nagamitsu et al. 1999: (floral records (not by species), foraging); Liow et al. 2001: 184; San & Osawa 2002: (population); MALAY- SIA, Negri Sembiran, Pasoh Forest Reserve; Eltz et al. 2003: (nest, tree preference); Franck et al. 2004: 2318 (citation); Samejima et al. 2004: (population); MALAYSIA, Sarawak, Miri, Upper Baram area; Nagamitsu & Inoue 2005: 77 (distribution, foraging); Klakasikorn et al. 2005: 6 (citation); Rasmussen & Cameron 2007: (systematics).