Centris (Centris) flavofasciata Friese, 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 : 536

Centris (Centris) flavofasciata Friese, 1899

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Centris flavifrons flavofasciata Friese, 1899a . 46.

Type data: Friese (1899a) mentioned that the type specimen was housed at NMW but it is actually in HNHM. The holotype male has the following data label: Mexico [printed]\ [light greenish square] 36. [handwritten]\ [black- rimmed] 658 47. [handwritten]\ C. flavifrons F. v. flavofasciata Friese ³ [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed]. There is no precise locality information from the original description or specimen labels, but according to the ac- cession book at HNHM the type specimen was collected in “Praesidio” (= Presidio) in Sinaloa state, Mexico and purchased from the British naturalist Alphonse Forrer in 1883. The species was correctly interpreted by Snelling (1966, 1984) and Moure et al. (2007).

Type locality: Mexico: Sinaloa state: Presidio .

Figures

FIGURES 1–4. Centris flavifrons flavofasciata Friese, 1899a (holotype male). Fig. 1: Head, frontal view (Scale bar 2 mm). Fig. 2: Habitus, lateral view (Scale bar 5 mm). Fig. 3: Habitus, dorsal view (Scale bar 2 mm). Fig. 4: Labels.