Centris (Melanocentris) flavilabris Mocsáry, 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 : 537

Centris (Melanocentris) flavilabris Mocsáry, 1899

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Centris flavilabris Mocsáry, 1899 . 253.

Type data: This species was described based on an undetermined number of females collected in Cumbara ( Peru) and Tonantins ( Brazil). I found at HNHM one female from Cumbara and it is here designated as the lectotype. The specimen has the following data label: Peru Cumbara [handwritten]\ [light greenish square] 47. [handwritten]\ Centris flavilabris Mocs. ♀ [handwritten] det. Friese, 1898 [printed]. The current status and depository of the re- maining specimens is unknown.

Type locality: Peru: “Cumbara”. Apparently, Mocsáry (1899) misspelled the name of the locality where the lectotype was collected. There are several localities with similar names, like San Antonio de Cumbasa, San Roque de Cumbasa, Cumbase and Cumbare, so the exact type locality cannot be determined. According to Claus Rasmussen (in Moure, 2002), the type locality is certainly in the north of the Peruvian Amazon.

Figures

FIGURES 5–8. Centris flavilabris Mocsáry, 1899 (lectotype female). Fig. 5: Head, frontal view (Scale bar 2 mm). Fig. 6: Habitus, lateral view (Scale bar 5 mm). Fig. 7: Habitus, dorsal view (Scale bar 2 mm). Fig. 8: Labels.