Species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Heinrich Friese (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Author
Vivallo, Felipe
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-07-28
4820
2
231
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journal article
8979
10.11646/zootaxa.4820.2.2
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Centris rubripes
Friese, 1899
Centris atriventris
var.
rubripes
Friese, 1899: 43
.
Type data:
According
to
Friese (1899)
this species was described based on four females, one from
Venezuela
, one from
Panama
and the other two from
Brazil
.
The
specimen from
Panama
is currently housed at
ZMB
and it is here designated the
lectotype
.
The
specimen has the following data label:
Panama
[handwritten]\
C
.
atriventris
v.
rubripes
Fr.
♀
[handwritten] 1910
Friese
det. [printed]\ [red label]
Type
[printed]\
Coll. Friese
[printed] (
ZMB
).
Paralectotype
with the following data label: Tschek 1870 [handwritten]\
C
.
atriventris
v.
rubripes
♀
n. v.
[handwrit-ten] det.
Friese
1898 [printed]\ [red label]
Paratype
[printed] (
NMW
).
Paralectotype
with the following data label: Tschek 1870 [handwritten]\
C
.
atriventris
v.
rubripes
♀
n. v.
[handwritten] det.
Friese
1898 [printed]\ [red label]
Paratype
[printed] (
NMW
). The current condition and depository of the remaining
paralectotype
from
Venezuela
are unknown
.
Type
locality:
Panama
.
Comments:
The
type locality cannot be further narrowed down than to
Panama
.
The
paralectotypes
housed at
NMW
were collected by the Austrian entomologist specialized in
Ichneumonidae Carl Tschek
(? ‒1872). Both sexes have orange pubescence on head, mesosoma and forelegs, while the rest of the body is mainly covered with blackish hairs
.