Centriszonalis Dominique, 1898

Fig. 2A

Centriszonalis Dominique, 1898: 59 (junior synonym of C. laticincta (Spinola, 1841)) .

Type data

Dominique described this species using an undetermined number of female specimens. The lectotype was designated by Rasmussen et al. (2007) and it has the following data label: [black-rimmed white yellowish label] Maroni Guyane-Française [printed]\ Centris (Melacentris) insignis Smith, 1854 Det. Rasmussen & Mahé [printed]\ [red label] LECTOTYPE Centris zonalis Dominique, 1898 Des. Rasmussen, 2006 [printed] (MHNN) (Fig. 2 A). Paralectotype female with the following data label: [black-rimmed white yellowish label] Maroni Guyane-Française [printed]\ Centris (Melacentris) insignis Smith, 1854 Det. Rasmussen & Mahé [printed]\ [yellow label] PARALECTOTYPE Centris zonalis Dominique, 1898 Des. Rasmussen, 2006 [printed] (MHNN).

Type locality

French Guiana: Maroni River.

Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson

Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson (1809‒1848) was a German doctor and entomologist. He worked actively in different areas of zoology, mainly with beetles, which led him to be appointed curator of the Coleoptera collection of the ZMB (Klug 1850). Erichson died very young, only 39 years old.

Erichson’s Centris bee

Erichson described several new species of insects, but only two in Centris . When he proposed them, Hemisia Klug, 1807 was considered the valid name of the genus, so he placed his species in it. Later, the genus name was updated to Centris .