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
1
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https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/7ff3189b-0554-37b7-b860-b762523658a6/
journal article
10.1590/1678-4766e2023003
1678-4766
10525769
Centris danunciae
Moure, 2002
Centris
(
Ptilocentris
)
danunciae
MOURE, 2002b: 159
.
Type data.
MOURE (2002b)
proposed this species using
two females
and
one male
collected by the Polish botanist Felix WoytKowsKi (1892‒1966) at Huanta, southern
Peru
. At the age of 37 Woytkowski arrived in
Peru
where he travelled throughout most of the country. During his more than 35 years of activity, he studied insects and plants sending samples and information on specimens to botanists and entomologists (
GURNEY, 1976
). The
holotype
was caught on
2 April 1941
and it is deposited, as well as the
paratypes
, in the
DZUP
.
Type
locality.
Peru
:
Ayacucho
Department
:
Huanta
“
2400m
”
.