Centris atra Friese, 1899

Vivallo, Felipe, 2020, Species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Heinrich Friese (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Zootaxa 4820 (2), pp. 231-259 : 240

Centris atra Friese, 1899

Centris atra Friese, 1899: 41 .

Type data: Friese (1899) based this description in a composed series of five females belonging to two species collected in Brazil and Colombia. In 2018, Vivallo designated the lectotype fixing Blumenau , southern Brazil as the type locality. The lectotype is currently housed at NMW and it has the following data label: Brasil Blumenau 1897 Virgil [printed]\ Centris atra n. sp. ♀ [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed]\ [light blue label] LECTOTYPE Centris atra Friese, 1899 des. F. Vivallo, 2017 [printed] ( NMW) . Paralectotype female with the following data label: Brasil Blumenau 1897 Virgil [printed]\ Centris atra Fr. ♀ Type! [handwritten] 1900 Friese det. [printed]\ [light blue label] PARALECTOTYPE Centris atra Friese, 1899 des. F. Vivallo, 2017 [printed] ( HNHM) . Paralectotype female with the following data label: Centris atra n. sp. [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed] ( NMW) . Paralectotype female with the following data label: [green label] Columbien [handwritten]\ 19761 [handwritten]\ Centris atra ♀ [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed] ( ZMB) . The current condition and depository of the missing paralectotype are unknown.

Type locality: Brazil: Santa Catarina state: Blumenau .

Comments: The lectotype and paralectotype housed at HNHM were collected by the German plastic artist and portraitist Gustav Virgil who emigrated from Germany to Blumenau, southern Brazil ( Krug 2010). For a complete resume of the taxonomic history of this species see Vivallo (2018).