Trigona apicalis 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 : 42-43

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 apicalis Smith, 1857
status

Treatment

23. Trigona apicalis Smith, 1857 View in CoL

Fig. 24

Trigona apicalis Smith, 1857: 51 View in CoL , ♀.

Type material examined

Lectotype

MALAYSIA • ♀; Sar. [ Sarawak]; [ 29 Oct. 1854 – 10 Feb. 1856]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2782-01 .

Paralectotype

MALAYSIA • 1 ♀; Sar. [ Sarawak]; [ 29 Oct. 1854 – 10 Feb. 1856]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2782-02 .

Other material examined

MALAYSIA • 1 ♀; Sark./ Mouhot ; OUMNH (of no type status) .

Type locality

Borneo ( Sarawak).

Notes

This species was not dealt with by Baker (1993). Rasmussen (2008: 51) indicates that the holotype is in the OUMNH collection, but we found three specimens standing in the type collection. Two bear typical Wallace labels indicating collection in Sarawak, and the third has a printed label, suggesting that it is not syntypic. The specimen bearing both a white disc and a determination label of Trigona apicalis written in Smith’s hand is hereby designated as the lectotype.

Current status

Tetrigona apicalis ( Smith, 1857) ( Rasmussen 2008) .

Distribution

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

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