The bees of the genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Author
Vivallo, Felipe
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2020
2020-03-19
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journal article
10.5852/ejt.2020.618
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Subgenus
Centris
(
Heterocentris
)
Cockerell, 1899
Centris ceratocephala
Cockerell, 1912
Centris ceratocephala
Cockerell, 1912a: 45
.
Junior synonym
of
C.
(
Heterocentris
)
bicornuta
Mocsáry, 1899
(
Moure
et al.
2007
).
Type
data
Cockerell (1912a)
did not specify how many females he used to describe this species, but according to the labels of the type housed at
AMNH
, apparently he had only one specimen available collected by William Mann and Fred Baker in northern
Brazil
during the Stanford Expedition. This specimen is herein considered
holotype
, it is in good condition, with the following data label: Manaos,
Brazil
Mann & Baker [printed]\
Centris ceratocephala
Ckll
Type. [handwritten]\ ac 33337 [handwritten]\
AMNH
_ IZC 00323435 [data matrix code] [printed].
Type
locality
Brazil
: Amazonas State: Manaus (“Manaos”).
Comments
Moure
et al.
(2007)
were not able to find the depository of the
holotype
of this species.
Centris bicornuta
occurs from
Mexico
to
Argentina
(
Snelling 1984
;
Roig-Alsina 2000
). According to the accession book at the AMNH, the number 33337 was assigned to about
100 specimens
that were sent from Cockerell’s collection to the AMNH. This number is also present on the labels of the primary types of
C. ceratocephala
,
C. euphenax
,
C. libertatis
,
C. maroniana
and
C. wilmattae
(see below).