Prosopis malachisis Smith, 1859

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 : 64-65

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scientific name	Prosopis malachisis Smith, 1859
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39. Prosopis malachisis Smith, 1859

Fig. 40

Prosopis malachisis Smith, 1859: 132 , ♀.

Type material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • ♀; Ké [Kai]; [ 1–6 Jan. 1857]; OUMNH, ENT-HYME2798 .

Type locality

Key Island [= Kai].

Notes

Baker (1993: 204) wrote the following:

“ A ♀ in the UMO type collection, labelled ‘Ke’ [white disc] and ‘ Prosopis malachisis Smith’ is the HOLOTYPE of this species and it has now been labelled accordingly. The type lacks leg L I and the apical tarsal segments of legs R I and R II.

Hirashima (1978: 112) redescribed the ♀ from a specimen from Key in the University of Kansas [he apparently did not see the UMO specimen, and gave (p. 114) ‘ Type depository: British

Museum (Natural History), London’] and described the supposed ♀ from a specimen from Amboina in the Smithsonian Institution”.

The specimen indicated by Baker was not labelled as holotype; this has now been rectified. Hirashima’s comment is surprising, because he visited the OUMNH collection in 1967 ( Hirashima 1980: 114).

Current status

Palaeorhiza ( Palaeorhiza) malachisis Smith, 1859 ( Hirashima 1978).

Distribution

Indonesia ( Maluku: Kai, Ambon) ( Smith 1859; Michener 1965; Hirashima 1978).