Centris (Heterocentris) totonaca Cresson, 1879

Vivallo, Felipe, 2020, The Centris bees described by Ezra Townsend Cresson (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Iheringia, Série Zoologia (e 2020020) 110, pp. 1-7 : 4-5

Centris (Heterocentris) totonaca Cresson, 1879

( Figs 7, 8 )

Centris totonaca CRESSON,1879b . 7:213, 214. Junior synonym of C. analis ( MOURE, 1960) .

Type data. This species was proposed based on a single female collected in Mexico. The holotype is housed at ANSP and has the following data label: Mex. [printed]\ [red label] HoloTYPE [printed] 2626 [handwritten] ( ANSP).

Type locality. Mexico .

Comments. The specimen was collected by Francis Sumichrast, the same collector of the type specimens of C. montezuma and C. otomita . Females of this species can be identified by the two yellow triangles on clypeus and the smooth and shiny integument between the punctures of the clypeal disc ( Fig. 7 ), the orange brown metasoma, the scopa whitish on tibia and brownish on basitarsus ( Fig. 8 ) and by the orange lanceolate hairs on the lower corner of the pronotum. Photos of both sexes of this species can be found in VIVALLO & ZANELLA (2012). The type locality cannot be further narrowed down than to Mexico.

Figures

Figs 7, 8. Centris totonaca Cresson, 1879, holotype female: 7, head, frontal view; 8, habitus, lateral view.