Centris (Paracentris) lanosa Cresson, 1872

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Centris (Paracentris) lanosa Cresson, 1872

( Figs. 9, 10 )

Centris lanosa CRESSON, 1872 . 4:284.

Type data. CRESSON (1872) described this species based on three males collected in Texas, southern United States. In 1916, he designated the lectotype which is currently housed at ANSP. The specimen has the following data label: Tex. [prInted]\ ♂ [prInted]\ [red label] LectoTYPE [prInted] 2624 [handwritten] ( ANSP).

Type locality. United States: Arizona state: Texas .

Comments. The type series were collected by the Swedish collector Gustaf Wilhelm Belfrage (1834–1882). He was a prodigious collector and one of the best of his time. According to GEISER (1933) the number of new and interesting species discovered by Belfrage was astonishing, considering that they were collected in a very limited area of Arizona State. During 1866, Belfrage entered into correspondence with several entomologists, including Cresson. They encouraged him to make a trip to Texas to collect insects ( GEISER, 1933) during which the type specimens of C. lanosa were collected. The females have the first flagellomere slightly shorter than the following three segments combined and the metasoma with bluish metallic reflections. Males can be identified by the yellowish hairs on head and mesosoma ( Fig. 10 ), by the paraocular area, the base of the mandible and the anterior surface of the scape yellow ( Fig. 9 ); and by the clypeus with relatively dense punctation, except for a longitudinal unpunctate median line on disc. Centris lanosa has been recorded in the American states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Florida ( MOURE et al., 2007).

Figures

Figs 9, 10. Centris lanosa Cresson, 1872, lectotype male: 9, head, frontal view; 10, habitus, lateral view.