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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10.11646/zootaxa.4638.4.4
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Centris
(
Centris
)
flavofasciata
Friese, 1899
(
Figures 1‒4
)
Centris flavifrons flavofasciata
Friese, 1899a
. 46.
Type data:
Friese (1899a)
mentioned that the type specimen was housed at
NMW
but it is actually in
HNHM
. The
holotype
male has the following data label:
Mexico
[printed]\ [light greenish square] 36. [handwritten]\ [black- rimmed] 658 47. [handwritten]\
C
.
flavifrons
F.
v
.
flavofasciata
Friese
³ [handwritten] det.
Friese 1898
[printed]. There is no precise locality information from the original description or specimen labels, but according to the ac- cession book at
HNHM
the type specimen was collected in “Praesidio” (= Presidio) in
Sinaloa state
,
Mexico
and purchased from the British naturalist Alphonse Forrer in 1883. The species was correctly interpreted by
Snelling (1966
,
1984
) and
Moure
et al
. (2007)
.
Type
locality:
Mexico
:
Sinaloa state
:
Presidio
.