Centris heterodonta Cockerell, 1912

Vivallo, Felipe, 2020, The bees of the genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 618, pp. 1-47 : 38

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scientific name	Centris heterodonta Cockerell, 1912
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Treatment

Centris heterodonta Cockerell, 1912 View in CoL

Centris (Ptilotopus) heterodonta Cockerell, 1912a: 43–44 View in CoL .

New junior synonym of C. (Trachina) dentata Smith, 1854 View in CoL .

Type data

As for Centris bakeri , the female specimen studied by Cockerell to describe this species was collected by William Mann and Fred Baker in Rio Madeira, Rondônia State, northern Brazil. The holotype is currently housed at AMNH and has the following data label: Porto Velho, Rio Madeirrazil Mann & Baker. [printed]\ Centris heterodonta Ckll. Type. [handwritten]\ ac33337 [handwritten]\ AMNH _IZC 00323437 [data matrix] [printed].

Type locality

Brazil: Rondônia State: Rio Madeira.

Comments

The study of the type specimens of C. dentata and C. heterodonta allows proposing the synonymy between these both species. Despite the distribution range mentioned by Moure et al. (2007), this species occurs only in South America (unpubl. data).