Trigona thoracica 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 : 39

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1028.3129
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:06182A07-5DB6-4916-86AF-673865690CE2
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scientific name	Trigona thoracica Smith, 1857
status

Treatment

20. Trigona thoracica Smith, 1857 View in CoL

Trigona thoracica Smith, 1857: 50 View in CoL , ♀.

Type material examined

Possible syntype

MALAYSIA • ♀; Mal-ca [ Malacca]; [ 13 Jul.–25 Sep. 1854]; NHMUK, Type 17b, 1181 (examined by photograph) .

Type locality

Singapore.

Notes

This species was not dealt with by Baker (1993). There are no specimens of T. thoracica in the OUMNH collection. Rasmussen (2008: 12) states that the type is in the NHMUK as type 17b, 1181, and whilst available images show a specimen with a white disc label and Smith’s handwriting on typical blue paper, the label indicates “Mal-ca”, presumably Malacca rather than Singapore, the stated type locality. The specimen also bears an accession label reading “F. Sm. Coll. 79.22” and “ type ”, indicating that it came from the personal collection of Smith. Its syntypic status is somewhat ambiguous, but can probably be accepted as valid.

Current status

Geniotrigona thoracica ( Smith, 1857) ( Rasmussen 2008) .

Distribution

Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia (Peninsula, Borneo), Singapore, Indonesia ( Sumatra), Brunei ( Rasmussen 2008; Ascher et al. 2022).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Apidae
Genus	Trigona