Centris lepeletieri Cockerell, 1912

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Centris lepeletieri Cockerell, 1912

Centris lepeletieri Cockerell, 1912c: 140 .

Junior synonym of C. (Centris) haemorrhoidalis ( Fabricius, 1775) ( Moure 1960) .

Type data

Cockerell (1912c) recognized the existence of two species similar to each other, which would have been identified as C. haemorrhoidalis . According to him, the name C. haemorrhoidalis would be applied to Jamaican specimens where males have the first four terga and the anterior half of the fifth metallic blue, while females have the first four terga metallic blue and the rest reddish. Cockerell mentioned that the females from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic identified by Lepeletier (1841) as C. haemorrhoidalis would correspond to a different species, since they have only the first three terga blue, proposing for them the name C. lepeletieri . Cockerell (1912c) was correct in indicating the existence of two similar species. However, C. lepeletieri was described based on specimens that correspond to the true C. haemorrhoidalis . The Jamaican species was described several decades later under the name C. dirrhoda Moure, 1960 .

One of the females studied by Lepeletier (1841) was found at OUMNH and is here designated the lectotype of Centris lepeletieri . The specimen has the following data label: *Du [handwritten]\ Centris haemorrhoidalis Fabr Sto Domingo ♀.

Type locality

Dominican Republic: Distrito Nacional Province: Santo Domingo (“ Saint-Domingue ”).

Comment

This species was correctly interpreted by Moure (1960), who cited it in the synonymy of C. haemorrhoidalis .