Heterotrigona (Platytrigona) lamingtonia (Cockerell)

Engel, Michael S., 2019, Notes on Papuasian and Malesian stingless bees, with the descriptions of new taxa (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Journal of Melittology 2019 (88), pp. 1-25 : 14

Heterotrigona (Platytrigona) lamingtonia (Cockerell)

( Figs. 13 , 14 , 21 , 29–33 )

NEW RECORDS: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Oro Province: 2⚲⚲, Neuguinea [New Guinea], Lejo , 15 km WNW-Popondeta [Oro Province], 16.7.1973 [16 July 1973], Hohmann (SEMC).

COMMENTS: Included are images from a paratype of H. lamingtonia ( Figs. 13 , 14 , 21 ), as well as of workers collected from a nearby locality to the north of Mount Lamington, perhaps no more than 25 km from where the type series was collected. These individuals are less faded and agree in all details with the type series except in more extensive lighter coloration on the head, pleura, and wing venation (cf. Figs. 13 , 14 , 21 vs. 29–33). Both of these color forms have identical structural details and both possess the erect to suberect black setae on the apical metasomal terga that help to distinguish this species from H. keyensis .

Figures

Figures 10–13. Lateral habitus of workers of species of subgenus Platytrigona Moure. 10. Heterotrigona (Platytrigona) planifrons (Smith). 11. H. (P.) keyensis (Friese). 12. H. (P.) flaviventris (Friese). 13. Paratype of H. (P.) lamingtonia (Cockerell).

Figures 14–17. Facial views of workers of species of subgenus Platytrigona Moure. 14. Paratype of Heterotrigona (Platytrigona) lamingtonia (Cockerell). 15. H. (P.) planifrons (Smith). 16. H. (P.) flaviventris (Friese). 17. H. (P.) keyensis (Friese).

Figures 18–21. Forewings species of subgenus Platytrigona Moure. 18. Heterotrigona (Platytrigona) planifrons (Smith). 19. H. (P.) flaviventris (Friese). 20. H. (P.) keyensis (Friese). 21. Paratype of H. (P.) lamingtonia (Cockerell).

Figures 29–30. Worker of Heterotrigona (Platytrigona) lamingtonia (Cockerell). 29. Lateral habitus. 30. Dorsal habitus.

Figures 31–33. Details of worker of Heterotrigona (Platytrigona) lamingtonia (Cockerell). 31. Facial view. 32. Basal area of propodeum. 33. Wing venation.