Centris burgdorfi Friese, 1901

Vivallo, Felipe, 2020, Species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Heinrich Friese (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Zootaxa 4820 (2), pp. 231-259 : 247

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4820.2.2
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scientific name	Centris burgdorfi Friese, 1901
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Centris burgdorfi Friese, 1901 View in CoL

Centris burgdorfi Friese, 1901: 346 View in CoL , 347.

Type data: Friese (1901) described this species using two specimens of each sex collected by K. Burgdorf in Villarrica (“Villa Rica”), southeastern Paraguay. The lectotype was designed by Zanella (2002) and it is housed at ZMB. The specimen has the following data label: Paraguay Villa Rica 1900 Burgdorf [printed]\ Centris burgdorfi Fr. ♂ [handwritten] 1904 Friese det. [printed]\ Zool. Mus. Berlin [printed with blue ink]\ [red label] Type [printed]\ Coll. Friese [printed] ( ZMB). The current condition and depository of the paralectotypes are unknown.

Type locality: Paraguay: Guairá department: Villarrica (“Villa Rica”) .

Comments: This is one of the largest South American species of the subgenus. Aspects of its bionomy can be found in Sabino et al. (2017, 2019).