Centris mocsaryi Friese, 1899

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Centris mocsaryi Friese, 1899

Centris mocsaryi Friese, 1899: 42 .

Type data: Friese described this species using a relatively large series of males and females collected in Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, and Mexico. According to the original description, the type series is housed at HNHM, ZMB, NMW and MNHP. The female deposited in this latter collection is here designated the lectotype. The specimen has the following data label: Museum Paris Minas Geraes De Castelnau 7-47 [printed]\ Centris mocsaryi Friese ♀ [hand-written] det. Friese 1898 [printed]\ Type! [handwritten]\ [circular label] 19 43 [handwritten] ( MNHP). Paralectotype female with the following data label: 1668 Brasil [handwritten]\ Centris mocsaryi n. sp. ♀ [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed] ( ZMB). Paralectotype female with the following data label: 1660 Mexiko [handwritten]\ Centris mocsaryi n. sp. ♀ [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed] ( ZMB). Paralectotype female with the following data label: 21073 Peru [handwritten]\ Centris mocsaryi n. sp. ♀ [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed] ( ZMB). Paralec-totype female with the following data label: Hauda. Südorf Peru 1873 [handwritten]\ mocsaryi Friese [handwritten] det. [printed] ( NMW). Paralectotype female with the following data label: Hauda. Südorf Peru 1873 [handwritten]\ Centris mocsaryi ♀ [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed] ( NMW). Paralectotype female with the following data label: Brasilien [handwritten]\ [black rimmed label] Wihm. [?] [handwritten]\ mocsaryi Friese [handwritten] det. [printed] ( NMW). The current condition and depository of the paralectotype (s) from Venezuela are unknown.

Type locality: Brazil: Minas Gerais state .

Comment: The lectotype here designated was collected by the French naturalist François Louis Nompar de Caumont La Force , comte de Castelnau (1810–1880). In 1843, the French king Louis Philippe I sent Castelnau with two botanists and a taxidermist on an expedition to cross South America from Rio de Janeiro ( Brazil) to Lima ( Peru), following the watershed between the Amazon and La Plata river systems, and thence to Pará state, northern Brazil ( Whitley 1974) .