Lectotype designations and new synonymies in the Neotropical bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Author
Rasmussen, Claus
Author
Vivallo, Felipe
text
Zootaxa
2014
3856
4
585
594
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3856.4.7
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Centris
(
Trachina
)
vidua
Mocsáry, 1899
Centris vidua
Mocsáry, 1899
: 252
[New
lectotype
designation]
Centris vidua
lectotype
(♂): A single examined male labeled “
Honduras
/
San Pedro
Sula / ex. coll. Fruhstorfer” [printed], “31.”, “
C
. ♂ /
vidua
/ det.
Friese 1898
[printed] / Mocs.”, “
HOLOTYPE
/
Centris vidua
/
Mocsáry, 1899
” [red printed]. Friese must have received this specimen directly from the collection of Hans Fruhstorfer (
1866–1922
), a naturalist and insect dealer. The
type
locality is
San Pedro
Sula, Cortés,
Honduras
, where Fruhstorfer apparently never collected (
Lamas 2005
). The species was correctly interpreted by
Snelling (Snelling 1984)
and
Moure
et al
. (2007)
.