Lepidotrigona ventralis Rasmussen 2008

Abstract

18. Trigona ventralis Smith, 1857 Trigona ventralis Smith, 1857: 50, ♀. Type material examined Syntype MALAYSIA • ♀; Borneo, Sar [Sarawak]; [29 Oct. 1854 – 10 Feb. 1856]; NHMUK, Type 17b, 1186 (examined by photograph). Type locality Borneo (Sarawak), Malacca (Mount Ophir). Notes This species was not dealt with by Baker (1993). There are no specimens of T. ventralis in the OUMNH collection. Rasmussen (2008: 12) states that the type is in the NHMUK as type 17b, 1186, and this is a specimen labelled as “Sar.” and with a typical Smith label on blue paper. It bears the accession details of “purch. Stevens: B.M. 1857-36”, indicating that it went directly to the museum and not to W.W. Saunders. As it bears a typical Smith type label, it is clearly a valid syntype, and could be designated as a lectotype to fix the terra typica as Sarawak rather than peninsula Malaysia. Current status Lepidotrigona ventralis (Smith, 1857) (Rasmussen 2008). Distribution India, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia (Peninsula, Borneo), Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), Brunei (Rasmussen 2008).

Authors 4

1. Thomas James Wood Aachen Naturalis Biodiversity Center

   Naturalis Biodiversity Center

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   Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR, Leiden, the Netherlands

2. Stephan Risch
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   Imbacher Weg 59, Leverkusen, 51379, Germany

3. Michael C. Orr

   Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart

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   Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191, Stuttgart, Germany

4. J. E. Hogan

   University of Oxford

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   Life Collections, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, OX 1 3 PW, UK