Centris pectoralis flava ( 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 : 3-5

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.33
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scientific name	Centris pectoralis flava ( Schrottky, 1908 )
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Centris pectoralis flava ( Schrottky, 1908) View in CoL

Hemisia pectoralis var. flava Schrottky, 1908: 142 View in CoL . Junior synonym of C. obsoleta ( Moure et al., 2007) View in CoL .

Type data: This variety was proposed based on a single male specimen collected by Janós Anisits, the same collector of the type specimens of C. anisitsi and C. pectoralis var. clypeata in Asunción, Paraguay. Moure et al. (2007) were unable to locate the holotype but it is actually housed at ZMB. The type specimen has the following data label: Asuncion, Paraguay J.D. Anisits [printed] 11.II.06 im garten [handwritten]\ C.pector . f. flava Schrttk. ♂ [handwritten] Strand det [printed].

Comments: Centris obsoleta is widely distributed in South America with records from Argentina, Brazil, French Guiana, Paraguay, and Venezuela ( Moure et al., 2007).