Primary type information:
Type-material: 2 syntype workers. Type-locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya, Dory (= Manokwari) (
A.R. Wallace). Type-depositories:
BMNH,
OXUM.
Type notes:
There is no way of knowing if the
OXUM specimen, marked as “type” by Donisthorpe, is a true syntype or not. The specimen in
BMNH is mounted in the same way as the
OXUM specimen, but the forms of the data labels differ. The
OXUM specimen has only the standard paper disc, marked “DORY”, without other information. The
BMNH specimen has a printed rectangular label, “59/58 Dory. New Guinea,” for which the Accessions Register gives, “1859 no. 58 (June 24) Dory, New Guinea. Purchased of Mr S. Stevens; collected by Mr Alfred Wallace.”