Centris (Centris) smithii Cresson

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Centris (Centris) smithii Cresson ( Fig. 17 ).

Centris smithii Cresson, 1878b: 229 . New name for C. apicalis F. Smith, 1874a , not C. apicalis (Guérin-Méneville 1845) .

= Centris apicalis F. Smith, 1874a: 367 . Holotype female in BMNH. Preoccupied name, established by Cresson (1878b).

GD: British Virgin Islands (Guana Island), Lesser

Antilles, Puerto Rico (including Culebra, Desecheo,

and Mona Islands), and United States Virgin Is-

lands (St. Thomas).

Centris (Centris) decolorata Lepeletier ( Fig. 18 ) Figure 30. Holotype male of Nomada tibialis Fabricius , Centris decolorata Lepeletier, 1841: 160 . Holo- a senior synonym of Xeromelecta pantalon Dewitz , type male in MNHN. deposited at the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Photo by Lars Vilhelmsen.

GD: Caribbean coast from southern Texas to

Guianas, British Virgin Islands (Guana Island), Hispaniola, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles, and Puerto Rico (including key Caja de Muerto and Mona Island).

It is common to observe C. decolorata in sandy areas along coasts, where females nest and males are involved in perching ( Torres and Snelling 1992; personal observations of authors; see Fig. 18 ). The MEBT- MC and UPRM collections contain specimens of this species identified by K. V. Krombein as C. versicolor (Fabricius) . Wolcott (1923, 1936, 1948) erroneously reported this species from Puerto Rico (cf. Torres and Snelling 1992). Additional misidentifications of this kind appear in Dewitz (1881), Ståhl (1882), and Maldonado Capriles and Navarro (1967). According to R. R. Snelling (personal communication, 1999), C. versicolor is limited to the Lesser Antilles; however several Greater Antillean species have been misidentified as C. versicolor .

Figures

Figure 16-29. Apidae. 16) Anthophora tricolor (Fabr.). 17) Centris smithii Cresson. 18) C. decolorata Lepeletier. 19) C. lanipes (Fabr.). 20) C. haemorrhoidalis (Fabr.). 21) Exomalopsis analis Spinola. 22) Exomalopsis bahamica Timberlake. 23) Melissodes trifasciata Cresson. 24) Nomada pilipes (Cresson). 25) N. krugii Cresson. 26) Xeromelecta tibialis (Fabr.). 27) Mesoplia rufipes (Perty). 28-29) Xylocopa mordax F. Smith.