Centrisvaria ( Erichson, 1848 )

Vivallo, Felipe, 2023, The primary types of some species of Centris bees described by European entomologists in the 18 and 20 centuries (Hymenoptera: Apidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 864, pp. 1-27 : 9-10

Centrisvaria ( Erichson, 1848)

Hemisiavaria Erichson, 1848: 591.

Type data

As the previous species, Erichson described this new taxon based on an undetermined number of females. The whereabouts of the syntypes are unknown.

Type locality

Guyana.

Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville

Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799‒1874) was a French entomologist, famous for his work “ Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier ”, a complement to the work published by the French zoologists Georges Cuvier (1769‒1832) and Pierre André Latreille (1762‒1833). Guérin-Méneville founded several magazines of zoology and he was an active member of the Société Entomologique de France. He passed away in Paris, aged 74.

Guérin-Méneville’s Centris bee

Guérin-Méneville described a variety in the genus Anthophora Latreille, 1803 that actually belongs to Centris . Unfortunately, his contribution was unsuccessful, since the variety he proposed corresponds to a species previously described by Lepeletier in 1841.