Centris (Melanocentris) obsoleta Lepeletier, 1841

Vivallo, Felipe, 2019, Lectotype designations, taxonomic notes and new synonymies in some species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Amédée Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Zootaxa 4624 (1), pp. 23-40 : 32

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4624.1.2

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10448060

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scientific name

Centris (Melanocentris) obsoleta Lepeletier, 1841
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Centris (Melanocentris) obsoleta Lepeletier, 1841 View in CoL

Centris obsoleta Lepeletier, 1841 View in CoL . 153.

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Type data: Two females were found at OUMNH with original Lepeletier’s labels of identification and provenance (“Cay”= Cayenne). Although Lepeletier (1841) did not specify the number of specimens he studied, both must correspond to syntypes. One of the two females was labelled by Moure as lectotype, but that specimen is in worse condition than the other. The female in better condition is here designated the lectotype and it has the following data label: [circular label with red margin] Holotype [printed]\ Cay. [handwritten]\ Bres. [handwritten]\ Centris obsoleta Lep. ♀ Cayennae [handwritten]\ [light blue label] Lectotype Centris obsoleta Lepeletier, 1841 des. F. Vivallo, 2017 [printed] ( OUMNH). Paralectotype with the following data label: Cay. [handwritten]\ Centris obsoleta Lep. ♀ Cay- ennae [handwritten]\ Lectotype obsoleta [handwritten] Det. J. S. Moure 19 [printed] 57 [handwritten]\ [light blue label] Paralectotype Centris obsoleta Lepeletier, 1841 des. F. Vivallo, 2017 [printed] ( OUMNH).

Type locality: French Guiana: Cayenne .

Comments: The hairs on the mesoscutum and mesoscutellum of the lectotype have blackish rachis and whitish branches, as well as some yellow hairs on the tegula, anterior area of the mesoscutum and on the pronotal lobe. According to the original description, both females belonged to Dejean’s collection. This species has been only recorded in South America ( Moure et al., 2007).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Genus

Centris

Loc

Centris (Melanocentris) obsoleta Lepeletier, 1841

Vivallo, Felipe 2019
2019
Loc

Centris obsoleta

Lepeletier 1841
1841
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