Centris (Ptilotopus) zonata Mocsáry, 1899

Vivallo, Felipe, 2019, Taxonomic notes, lectotype designations and new synonymies in some species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Sándor Mocsáry and Heinrich Friese (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Zootaxa 4638 (4), pp. 534-546 : 542

Centris (Ptilotopus) zonata Mocsáry, 1899

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Centris zonata Mocsáry, 1899 . 251.

Type data: Mocsáry (1899) did not specify the number of specimens he used to describe this species. According to Moure et al. (2007), it was based on a single female specimen housed at HNHM. In that collection I found two females with the same provenance label “Amer. centr Chiriqui ”, both syntypes. A lectotype is here designated with the following data label: [light greenish square] 14. [handwritten]\ Amer. centr Chiriqui [printed]\ zonata Mocs ♀ [handwritten] det. Friese, 1898 [printed]. Paralectotype female with the following data label: Amer. centr. Chiriqui [printed].

Type locality: Panama: Chiriquí province .

Comment: The female of this species was incorrectly interpreted by Snelling (1984). According to the morphology he mentioned in his article, apparently he misidentified specimens of C. derasa Lepeletier, 1841 , a species that occurs in northern South America ( Moure et al., 2007).

Figures

FIGURES 21–24. Centris zonata Mocsáry, 1899 (lectotype female). Fig. 21: Head, frontal view (Scale bar 2 mm). Fig. 22: Habitus, lateral view (Scale bar 5 mm). Fig. 23: Habitus, dorsal view (Scale bar 2 mm). Fig. 24: Labels.