Centris gavisa Snelling, 1988

Vivallo, Felipe, 2023, Taxonomic notes on the primary types of some species of Centris bees described by some entomologists from the Americas (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Iheringia, Série Zoologia (e 2023003) 113, pp. 1-18 : 14

Centris gavisa Snelling, 1988

Centris (Melanocentris) gavisa SNELLING, 1988: 13 .

Type data. This species was described based on four females collected by the German botanist Susan Sabine Renner (1954‒) in 1985 in the Venezuelan Amazon between January 31 st and February 9 th. The holotype and one paratype are housed at NMNH while the other paratypes are in LACM. The holotype has the following data label: Camp VII, Neblina 00°52’N, 65°58’W Amazonas, VENEZ. 8 Feb. 1985 2100m coll. S.S. Renner [handwritten]\ No. 536, om flrs Disterigma humboldtii [handwritten]\ [red label] HOLOTYPE [printed] Centris (Melanocentris) gavisa [handwritten] R. R. SNELLING [printed]\ [red label] Type Number [printed 104256 [handwritten] U.S. N.M.\ [yellow label] NMNH ENT 00534195 barcode [printed] ( NMNH). Paratype female with the following information: Camp VII, Neblina 00°52’N, 65°58’W Amazonas, VENEZ. No. 526 31 Jan 1985 coll. S.S. Renner [handwritten]\ No. 526, on flrs. Saxofridericia compressa [handwritten/\ [light yellow label] PARATYPE Centris [printed] gavisa ♀ [handwritten] R. R. SNELLING ( NMNH).

Type locality. Venezuela: Amazonas State: Cerro de La Neblina .