Australian and New Guinean Stingless Bees of the Genus Austroplebeia Moure (Hymenoptera: Apidae) — a revision Author Dollin, Anne E. Author Dollin, Leslie J. Author Rasmussen, Claus text Zootaxa 2015 4047 1 1 73 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4047.1.1 27b0a730-9b28-4276-b74c-ec0ca0fb0740 1175-5326 290024 5A09E35D-3019-4F99-8A77-B7E2E637804D Austroplebeia australis (Friese) ( Figures 1–20 , 22–26 , 28–29 , 32–33 ) Trigona australis Friese 1898 : 427 , 430, 431. Austroplebeia australis — Moure 1961 : 196 ; Michener 1990 : 134 , 137. Trigona (Plebeia) australis — Michener 1965 : 222 , 230, 244. Trigona cincta percincta Cockerell 1929a : 242 . New Synonymy. Austroplebeia cincta percincta — Moure 1961 : 197 . Trigona (Plebeia) percincta — Michener 1965 : 230 . Austroplebeia percincta — Michener 1990 : 134 ; Rasmussen 2008 : 10 (as Austroplebeia percinta ) Trigona cockerelli Rayment 1930 : 57 . New Synonymy. Austroplebeia cockerelli — Moure 1961 : 197 ; Michener 1990 : 134 . Trigona (Plebeia) cockerelli— Michener 1965 : 230 . Trigona cockerelli ornata Rayment 1932 : 107 ;— Rayment 1935 : 738 (more detailed redescription as new subspecies). New Synonymy. Austroplebeia cockerelli ornata — Moure 1961 : 197 . Trigona (Plebeia) ornata— Michener 1965 : 230 . Austroplebeia ornata — Michener 1990 : 134 . Trigona websteri Rayment 1932 : 105 . New Synonymy. Austroplebeia websteri — Moure 1961 : 197 ; Michener 1990 : 134 . Trigona (Plebeia) websteri— Michener 1965 : 230 . General diagnosis of Austroplebeia australis . In workers and males, frons and mesepisternum with plumose hair ( Figs 22 d, 23 c–d, 25e), head width ≥ 1.59 mm ( Figs 10 , 14 ). In workers, HBW 0.29–0.40 mm ( Fig. 11 ). Most workers have the following characteristics: thorax markings Grade 2–11 ( Figs 5 , 7 ), pronotal collar and legs with cream or yellow maculations, plumose hair on clypeus sparse ( Fig. 22 d), bristles on basitarsus III golden. In males, gonostylus gently curved, thorax markings Grades 6 and 10–13, mesepisternum plumose hairs usually with long evenly spaced barbs and a broad triangular shape ( Fig. 25 e), HBW 0.23–0.29 mm ( Fig. 13 ). In queens, short dense hair covering T6, but absent on T4–T5. Distribution WA, NT, QLD and NSW ( Fig. 28 c).