Centris merrillae Cockerell, 1919

Vivallo, Felipe, 2020, The bees of the genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 618, pp. 1-47 : 17

Centris merrillae Cockerell, 1919

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Centris merrillae Cockerell, 1919: 191 .

Junior synonym of C. (Hemisiella) nigrescens ( Vivallo 2019 a) .

Type data

This species was described based on a single female specimen collected by the American limnologist and Amazon traveler Harriet Bell Merrill (1863–1915) during a research trip to South America. According to Rathbun (1911), she sold to the NMNH 500 specimens of insects collected during her expedition to Brazil, including probably the exemplar studied by Cockerell. The holotype ( Fig. 11 ) is housed at NMNH and has the following data label: Manaos Brazil [printed]\ Miss HBMerrill Collector [printed] Centris merrillae Ckll Type. [handwritten]\ [red label] Type No. [printed] 21655 [handwritten] U.S. N.M. [printed]\ [yellow label] USNM ENT 00534204 [barcode] [printed]\\ DO NOT REMOVE SI DB Reference Not a property tag T. Schultz NMNH [printed]. The holotype is in good condition.

Type locality

Brazil: Amazonas State: Manaus (“Manaos”).

Figures

Fig. 11. Centris merrillae Cockerell, 1919, holotype, ♀ (NMNH; USNM ENT 00534204). A. Frontal view. B. Habitus, lateral view. Scale bars: A = 1 mm; B = 2 mm.