Ceratina flavopicta Smith, 1857

Wood, T. J., Risch, S., Orr, M. C. & Hogan, J. E., 2025, An illustrated type catalogue of the bee species collected by Alfred Russel Wallace and described by Frederick Smith from Southeast Asia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), European Journal of Taxonomy 1028, pp. 1-144 : 23-24

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scientific name	Ceratina flavopicta Smith, 1857
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13. Ceratina flavopicta Smith, 1857 View in CoL

Fig. 12

Ceratina flavopicta Smith, 1857: 47 View in CoL , ♂.

Type material examined

Holotype

MALAYSIA • ♂; Sar. [ Sarawak]; [ 29 Oct. 1854 – 10 Feb. 1856]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2774 .

Type locality

Borneo ( Sarawak).

Notes

Baker (1993: 196) wrote the following:

“ A ♂ in the UMO type collection, labelled ‘SAR.’ [white disc] and ‘ Ceratina flavopicta Smith’ [blue paper, Smith], is the HOLOTYPE of this species and it has now been labelled accordingly.

Van der Vecht recognized tentatively three subspecies, but, apart from the type, saw only one specimen of nominotypical flavopicta , a ♂ from Sandakan in USNM. A ♂ from Kanowit, 20 vi 1971 (C.G. Roche, 11983) agrees well with the type. Of f. xanthura Cockerell, 1919, described from Penang [ type not traced], van der Vecht saw a topotypical ♂ and ♀ (also in USNM, collected by C.F. Baker). Further, recent, topotypical material includes a ♂ from Batu Ferringhi [ iii 1982 (Baker)] and a ♀ from the same locality [catchment area, 19 × 1963 (H,T, Pagden)]. Material is still insufficient for a decision on the validity of these forms [only of f. lauta van der Vecht, 1952, from Java and Bali, is an adequate series available).”

The specimen indicated by Baker was not labelled as the holotype; this has now been rectified.

Current status

Ceratina ( Lioceratina) flavopicta Smith, 1857 (van der Vecht 1952; Ascher & Pickering 2024).

Distribution

Malaysia (Peninsula, Borneo) and Indonesia ( Java, Bali) (van der Vecht 1952; Ascher & Pickering 2024).