The primary types of some species of Centris bees described by European entomologists in the 18 and 20 centuries (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Author
Vivallo, Felipe
AC109712-1474-4B5D-897B-1EE51459E792
HYMN Laboratório de Hymenoptera, Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão 20940 ‒ 040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2023
2023-03-27
864
1
27
journal article
10.5852/ejt.2023.864.2083
2118-9773
8011935
4F73AB5F-A4B7-43AD-949E-A40FFEEABF4F
Centrisvaria
(
Erichson, 1848
)
Hemisiavaria
Erichson, 1848: 591
.
Type
data
As the previous species, Erichson described this new taxon based on an undetermined number of females. The whereabouts of the
syntypes
are unknown.
Type
locality
Guyana
.
Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville
Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799‒1874) was a French entomologist, famous for his work “
Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier
”, a complement to the work published by the French zoologists Georges Cuvier (1769‒1832) and Pierre André Latreille (1762‒1833). Guérin-Méneville founded several magazines of zoology and he was an active member of the Société Entomologique de
France
. He passed away in Paris, aged 74.
Guérin-Méneville’s
Centris
bee
Guérin-Méneville described a variety in the genus
Anthophora
Latreille, 1803
that actually belongs to
Centris
. Unfortunately, his contribution was unsuccessful, since the variety he proposed corresponds to a species previously described by Lepeletier in 1841.