Taxonomic notes, lectotype designations and new synonymies in some species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Sándor Mocsáry and Heinrich Friese (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Author
Vivallo, Felipe
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-07-18
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4638.4.4
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Centris
(
Trachina
)
similis
(
Fabricius, 1804
)
Bombus similis
Fabricius, 1804
. 351.
Type data:
Lectotype
female with the following data label:
B
.
similis
ex Am. Mer. Schmidt\ Type\
Lectotype
Centris similis
(F) J. S. Moure 1958 (
ZMUC
, examined). Subsequent designation: Moure (1960).
Type
locality: “America meridionalis”, according to
Moure
(1960), probably
Guyana
.
Centris lineolata
Lepeletier, 1841
. 158.
Type data:
Lectotype
female (
MSNT
, not examined). Subsequent designation: Moure (1960).
Type
locality:
French Guiana
:
Cayenne
.
FIGURES 21–24.
Centris zonata
Mocsáry, 1899
(lectotype female). Fig. 21: Head, frontal view (Scale bar 2 mm). Fig. 22: Habitus, lateral view (Scale bar 5 mm). Fig. 23: Habitus, dorsal view (Scale bar 2 mm). Fig. 24: Labels.
Centris lineolata var
.
castaniventris
Mocsáry
in
Friese, 1901
. 288.
(
Figures 25‒28
)
Type data: The description of this subspecies was based on male and female specimens collected in
Venezuela
and
Peru
, respectively. The female
syntype
found at
HNHM
is here designated
lectotype
. The specimen has the following data label:
Peru
Cumbara [handwritten]\ [light greenish square] 41 [handwritten]\
C
.
lineolata v
.
castaniventris
Mocs.
♀
[handwritten] det.
Friese 1898
[printed].
Type
locality:
Peru
: “Cumbara”.
See
comments on this locality under the notes
on
C
.
flavilabris
above
.
Comments: Taxonomic decision for synonymy: Moure (1960). This species was correctly interpreted by
Moure
et al
. (2007)
.