Taxonomic notes on the primary types of some species of Centris bees described by some entomologists from the Americas (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Author
Vivallo, Felipe
text
Iheringia, Série Zoologia
2023
e 2023003
2023-04-07
113
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https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/7ff3189b-0554-37b7-b860-b762523658a6/
journal article
10.1590/1678-4766e2023003
1678-4766
10525769
Centris tetrazona
Moure & Seabra, 1962
Centris
(
Ptilotopus
)
tetrazona
MOURE & SEABRA, 1962: 8
.
Type data.
MOURE & SEABRA (1962)
proposed this species based on
five specimens
of both sexes collected by the Brazilian coleopterist Moacyr Alvarenga (1915‒2010) in
Goiás
and
Mato Grosso
States, Midwest
Brazil
.Alvarenga was an Air Force officer, a job that permitted him to travel around
Brazil
collecting in numerous places never collected before or since. He collected a large number of Brazilian insects that are now deposited in museum collections worldwide, mainly in
DZUP
. The
holotype
male of
C
.
tetrazona
was housed at
MNRJ
and is currently destroyed. The specimen had the following data label: [light yellow with black rim] COLEÇÃO CAMPOS SEABRA [printed]\ [light yellow label with black rim] S. ISABEL do
MORRO
I. BANANAL
Goiás
Brasil
VI-1961
M. Alvarenga leg. [printed]\ [red label with red rim]
HOLOTIPO
[printed]\ [light yellow label] Variantes de côr da pilosidade da
C
. (
Ptilotopus
)
scopipes
Friese
[handwritten in blue ink] (
MNRJ
, destroyed).
Type
locality.
Brazil
:
Tocantins State
:
Santa Isabel do Morro
.