Centris (Heterocentris) cornuta Cresson, 1865

Vivallo, Felipe, 2020, The Centris bees described by Ezra Townsend Cresson (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Iheringia, Série Zoologia (e 2020020) 110, pp. 1-7 : 3

Centris (Heterocentris) cornuta Cresson, 1865

Centris? cornuta CRESSON, 1865 . 4:194, 195.

Type data. Cresson described this species with doubts about whether it belonged to Centris or not, given its particular morphology. It was described based on a single female specimen collected in an unknown locality in Cuba. The holotype is housed at IESH (Gundlach collection) and unfortunately it was not available during the development of this article .

Type locality. Greater Antilles : Cuba .

Comments. This is one of the morphologically rarest species of the genus, so far only known from female specimens. They have mandibles dark brown, longer than the length of the compound eye (in frontal view) with two teeth relatively similar in size on the distal half; disc of the mesoscutum and dorsal surface of hind tibia with brown pubescence and metasoma dark brown. Unfortunately it is not easy to find in collections and nothing is known about its bionomy. Photographs can be found in VÉLEZ & VIVALLO (2012). The type locality cannot be further narrowed down than to Cuba. According to MOURE et al. (2007), this species has been also recorded in Haiti.