Centris anisitsi ( Schrottky, 1908 )

Vivallo, Felipe, 2020, The species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Curt Schrottky (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60, pp. 1-6 : 2

Centris anisitsi ( Schrottky, 1908)

Hemisia anisitsi Schrottky, 1908: 141 .

Type data: This species was described based on a single male collected in Asunción, Paraguay by the Hungarian biologist János Dániel Anisits (1856‑1911). Anisits migrated to Paraguay where he worked actively conducting explorations and collecting biological material ( Magyarország és Latin‑Amerika, 2019). The holotype is currently housed at ZMB and has the following data label: Asuncion, Paraguay J.D. Anisits [printed] XII 04 [handwritten]\ [red label] Type [handwritten in white ink]\ Hemisia anisitsi Schrottky ♂ [handwritten] ( ZMB).

Comments: This is a poorly known species only record‑ ed by a couple of specimens collected in Paraguay. Both sexes can be recognized by the square trochanter of fore and middle legs, the yellow pubescence on mesoscutum and mesoscutellum which contrasts with the dark brown to black hairs covering the rest of the body, and by the clypeus and labrum blackish with coarse and very dense punctation.