Trigona fimbriata 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 : 46-47

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scientific name	Trigona fimbriata Smith, 1857
status

Treatment

26. Trigona fimbriata Smith, 1857 View in CoL

Fig. 27

Trigona fimbriata Smith, 1857: 52 View in CoL , ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

SINGAPORE • ♀; Sing. [Singapore]; [either 25 Sep.–17 Oct. 1854 or 10–17 Feb. 1856]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2785 .

Type locality

Singapore.

Notes

This species was not dealt with by Baker (1993). Rasmussen (2008: 16) indicates that the type is in the NHMUK as type 17b, 1182. This specimen is labelled as “Type” with a white disc label reading “Mal-ca” [ Malacca]. This is another Stevens purchase, accessioned in 1855. The specimen is further labelled as “ Lectotype Det. J.S. Moure 1957”. The specimen bears no label by Smith, and so there is no indication that it was ever examined by him. As the terra typica is Singapore and the OUMNH specimen (a singleton) is labelled as Singapore, it is reasonable to treat it as the holotype and the NHMUK specimen is an invalid lectotype and of no type status.

Current status

Homotrigona fimbriata ( Smith, 1857) ( Rasmussen 2008) .

Distribution

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

Species described by Smith (1858a) from Sulawesi

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