Tetragonula mellipes ( Friese, 1898 )

Rasmussen, Claus, 2008, Catalog of the Indo-Malayan / Australasian stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini), Zootaxa 1935, pp. 1-80 : 45

Tetragonula mellipes ( Friese, 1898)

Trigona mellipes Friese 1898: 428 , 429: Syntypes (ZMHB, 1 worker, 1 male): examined, "C. Austr. / v. Müller.93", " Trigona / mellipes / det. Friese 1897", "Zool. Mus. / Berlin", "Coll. / Friese" (only worker). Friese stated the type locality was "S. Australia", probably an error for C. Australia, as ZMHB specimens match the original description and the taxon is not known from southern Australia (key to species, taxonomy); Type locality: AUSTRALIA "S. Australia" (worker, male); Friese 1909: 272, 273, 276 (citation, key to species); Cockerell 1930b: 150 (taxonomy); Schwarz 1932: 245; Rayment 1932f: 107 (taxonomy (as melipes!) ); Rayment 1932f: 107; Rayment 1935: 735 (key to species); Michener 1965: 231; Dollin & Dollin 1988: 223 (type locality); Gibbons 1992: (type depository); Cardale 1993: 324 (distribution, list); AUSTRALIA, N coastal; N Gulf; Northern Territory; Western Australia; Yamane et al. 1995: 294 (synonymy); Dollin et al. 1997: (nest, revision, taxonomy); AUSTRALIA, Northern Territory; Western Australia; Dollin 1997: (characteristics); Crane 1999: 89; Heard & Dollin 2000: (bee-keeping); Green et al. 2001: 91 (microsatellite); Serrão 2001: (morphology (proventricular structure)); Palmer et al. 2002: (maternity); Franck et al. 2004: (genetics, microsatellite, nest); Tóth et al. 2004: 6 (citation); Rasmussen & Cameron 2007: (systematics); Klumpp 2007: 4, 82.