Centris (Hemisiella) fulviventris Cresson, 1865

Genaro, Julio A. & Breto, Dayron, 2024, The genus Centris Fabricius in Cuba, with a new record and the description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), Insecta Mundi 2024 (41), pp. 1-26 : 17

Centris (Hemisiella) fulviventris Cresson

( Fig. 49–52 )

Centris fulviventris Cresson 1865: 193 . Holotype female in IES, Gundlach collection, no. 168.

Centris simillima F. Smith 1874: 370 . Lectotype female in NHMUK. Synonymy of Vivallo (2020a).

This is the rarest species of Centris in Cuba , known only from the type specimen ( Fig. 49–51 ) and some females from Hispaniola. Males are unknown.

Smith (1874) described this species under the name C. simillima from the female and described it as resembling C. lanipes . Moure et al. (2007) included C. simillima , C. fulviventris and C. picea Lepeletier as junior primary synonym of C. lanipes . Vivallo (2020a) reanalysed the taxonomic status and removed C. fulviventris and C. simillima from synonymy with C. lanipes , leaving C. fulviventris as the valid name and C. simillima a junior synonym thereof. Vivallo (2020b) included C. fulviventris among the species studied and described by Cresson.

Distribution. Cuba and Hispaniola.

Figures

Figures 49–51. Centris fulviventris female holotype. 49) Lateral habitus. 50) Dorsal habitus. 51) Head in frontal view.

Figure 52. Centris fulviventris distribution. Hispaniola is represented as a whole in yellow because there are no known exact locality records.