Prosopis elegans Smith, 1865

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 : 128-129

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scientific name	Prosopis elegans Smith, 1865
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Treatment

83. Prosopis elegans Smith, 1865

Fig. 82

Prosopis elegans Smith, 1865: 91 , ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • ♀; N. [New Guinea]; [1861]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2837 .

Type locality

New Guinea. Allen visited the area around Sorong in West Papua (probably) in the first half of 1861 ( Wallace 1869; Baker 1993), and so the type locality can be considered to be Indonesia ( West Papua).

Notes

Baker (1993: 235) identified this specimen as the holotype and stated that he labelled it, but we found no type label; this has now been rectified.

Current status

Palaeorhiza ( Cnemidorhiza) elegantissima ( Dalla Torre, 1896) . Prosopis elegans Smith, 1865 is a junior primary homonym of Prosopis elegans Smith, 1853 (described from Australia). Dalla Torre (1896: 22) noticed this, and provided a replacement name.

Distribution

Indonesia ( West Papua, Southwest Papua: Misool) ( Hirashima & Lieftinck 1982).