Centris (Centris) haemorrhoidalis (Fabricius)

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Centris (Centris) haemorrhoidalis (Fabricius) ( Fig. 20 )

Apis haemorrhoidalis Fabricius, 1775: 386 . Lectotype female in ZMK, designated by Moure (1960a). = Centris tabaniformis Fabricius, 1804: 358 . Lectotype male in ZMUC. = Centris lepeletieri Cockerell, 1912c: 140 . Location of holotype female unknown. Considered a nomen nudum by R. R. Snelling.

GD: British Virgin Islands (Guana Island and Virgin Gorda Island), Hispaniola,, Puerto Rico (including Mona Island), and United States Virgin Islands (St. John).

Snelling (personal communication, 1999) rightly considers Cockerell’s C. lepeletieri as a nomen nudum because the original description only provided remarks on how specimens of C. haemorrhoidalis from Hispaniola differ from those of a putative Jamaican species for which he proposed the name C. lepeletieri . There are no statements describing features of C. lepeletieri .

Figures

Figure 16-29. Apidae. 16) Anthophora tricolor (Fabr.). 17) Centris smithii Cresson. 18) C. decolorata Lepeletier. 19) C. lanipes (Fabr.). 20) C. haemorrhoidalis (Fabr.). 21) Exomalopsis analis Spinola. 22) Exomalopsis bahamica Timberlake. 23) Melissodes trifasciata Cresson. 24) Nomada pilipes (Cresson). 25) N. krugii Cresson. 26) Xeromelecta tibialis (Fabr.). 27) Mesoplia rufipes (Perty). 28-29) Xylocopa mordax F. Smith.