Trigona planifrons Smith, 1865

Wood, T. J., Risch, S., Orr, M. C. & Hogan, J. E., 2025, An illustrated type catalogue of the bee species collected by Alfred Russel Wallace and described by Frederick Smith from Southeast Asia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), European Journal of Taxonomy 1028, pp. 1-144 : 133-134

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1028.3129
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:06182A07-5DB6-4916-86AF-673865690CE2
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scientific name	Trigona planifrons Smith, 1865
status

Treatment

88. Trigona planifrons Smith, 1865 View in CoL

Fig. 87

Trigona planifrons Smith, 1865: 93–94 View in CoL , ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • ♀ (worker); N. [New Guinea]; [1861]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2842 .

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: 236) 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

Heterotrigona ( Platytrigona) planifrons ( Smith, 1865) ( Engel & Rasmussen 2017) .

Distribution

Indonesia ( West Papua) and Papua New Guinea ( Rasmussen 2008; Ascher & Pickering 2024).