The Identity and Neotype of Trigona laeviceps Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Claus Rasmussen; Charles D. Michener

doi:10.2317/JKES0907.08.1

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Claus Rasmussen,^* Charles D. Michener^**

^*Department of Biological Sciences, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. e-mail: alrunen@yahoo.com
^**Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66049, USA. e-mail: michener@ku.edu

Abstract

Recognizable type material of Trigona laeviceps Smith, 1857, has not been found. A neotype from the correct type locality, Singapore, is here designated. It is a specimen of the smaller form commonly included in T. laeviceps, and is the same species as the false holotype previously recognized. Trigona fuscobalteata Cameron, 1908, is not a synonym of T. laeviceps as has been proposed. The name T. valdezi Cockerell, 1918, or possibly T. testaceitarsis Cameron, 1901, may be appropriate for a larger form commonly included in T. laeviceps. A lectotype and two paralectotypes are designated for T. testaceitarsis.

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Claus Rasmussen and Charles D. Michener "The Identity and Neotype of Trigona laeviceps Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae)," Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 83(2), 129-133, (1 April 2010). https://doi.org/10.2317/JKES0907.08.1

Accepted: 1 January 2010; Published: 1 April 2010

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