Platytrigona planifrons ( Smith, 1865 )

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Platytrigona planifrons ( Smith, 1865)

Trigona planifrons Smith 1865: 93-94 : Holotype (OUMNH, worker): According to Baker (1993) the specimen is labeled " 'N' [New Guinea (Allen); white disc] and ' Trigona planifrons 'Smith' ". The BMNH "type" (17b.1180) indicated by Moure (1961), is not a true type ( Baker, 1993). The planifrons species group (taxonomy); Type locality: INDONESIA (IRIAN JAYA) "New Guinea" (worker); Smith 1871: 396 (distribution); "NEW GUINEA"; Dalla Torre 1896: 582 (citation); Friese 1898: 427, 428 (citation, key to species); MALAYSIA, Malacca (misidentification); "NEW GUINEA"; Friese 1909("1908"): 354, 356, fig. 15-8 (distribution); INDONESIA, Irian Jaya / PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Digul Fluss; Etna Bai; Jamur Gebiet; Manikion; Manokwari; Merauke; Moaif; Tawarin; Friese 1909: 272, 273, 274 (distribution, key to species); INDONESIA, Irian Jaya / PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Digul Fluss; Etna Bai; Janour Gebiet; Manokwari; Merauke, Moaif; Tawarin; Friese 1915: 4 (distribution); INDONESIA, Irian Jaya / PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Digul Fluss; Etna Bai; Manikion; Manokwari; Merauke; Moaif; Sattelberg; Sekofro; Simbang; Tawarin; Tjahe Fluss; Zoutbron; Cockerell 1923: 241 (key to species); Cockerell 1929e: 242 (comparative note, distribution); PAPUA NEW GUINEA, Fly River; Mt. Lamington; Schwarz 1948: 83, 109, 118; Moure 1961: 203, 204 (systematic position); Michener 1965: 231 (citation); Camargo 1988: 372 (distribution); PAPUA NEW GUINEA, N. Guinea, Simbang, Huon Golf; Michener 1990: 88, 105, 120, 127, 153 (illustration, morphology, systematic position); Michener & Roubik 1993: 260 (comparative note, morphology); Cunha 1994: (systematics); Michener 1997: 48 (type species); Michener 2000: 800-801; Hohmann 2003: (communication, nest); Michener 2007a: 824, 826.