Centris euphenax Cockerell, 1913

Centris euphenax Cockerell, 1913: 109–110 .

Type data

This species was described based on a single male specimen collected by the American entomologist and dipterologist Charles Henry Typer Townsend (1863–1944) on March 27 during a trip to Peru. Townsend went there not to study bees, but cotton pests (Evenhuis 2013). He was a difficult man to work with and this no doubt led to his virtually isolating himself from other colleagues. Nevertheless, he and Cockerell had a cordial relationship and that could have facilitated the sending of some bees to be studied by this latter researcher. The male holotype, not female as mentioned in the original description, is housed at AMNH and has the following data label: Pachacayo. Peru. March. 27 [?] 12000 ft [?] CHT Townsend. [handwritten]\ Centris euphenax Ckll Type. [handwritten]\ ac33337 [handwritten].

Type locality

Peru: Junín Department: Pachacayo (“over 12,000 ft. ”).

Comment

This species was correctly interpreted by Moure et al. (2007).