Centris (Melanocentris) scutellata Friese, 1901

Vivallo, Felipe, 2019, Taxonomic notes, lectotype designations and new synonymies in some species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Sándor Mocsáry and Heinrich Friese (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Zootaxa 4638 (4), pp. 534-546 : 540

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.4.4

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Centris (Melanocentris) scutellata Friese, 1901
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Centris (Melanocentris) scutellata Friese, 1901 View in CoL

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Centris fusciventris scutellata Friese, 1901 View in CoL . 273.

Type data: According to Moure et al. (2007) the male and female syntypes are housed at ZMB, but they were not found there. A single male from the type series was found at HNHM and it is here designated lectotype. The specimen has the following data label: [light greenish square] 26 [handwritten]\ Chiriqui Mocsàry [handwritten]\ C. fusciventris v. scutellata Mocs. ³ [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed]. Another male specimen from Chiriqui was found at MNHP with the following data label: [orange square label without text]\ Chiriqui \ fusciventris Mocs v. scutellata Fr. \ Museum Paris Coll. J. Pérez 1915. Despite its provenance, I cannot be confident that it really belongs to the type series.

Type locality: Panama: Chiriquí province .

Comments: The critical study of the type specimen allowed me to correct the subgeneric assignment for this species, transferring it from C. ( Aphemisia ) Ayala, 2002 to C. (Melanocentris) due the strong apical curvature of the mandible and the shape of the innermost tooth. Considering the distance between the lateral ocellus and the compound eye, C. scutellata seems to be related to C. boliviensis , C. flavilabris and C. fulva Friese, 1924 .

Ayala, R. (2002) Two new subgenera of bees in the genus Centris (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum The University of Kansas, 25, 1 - 8. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 8484

Friese, H. (1898) Die Trigona - Arten Australiens. Termeszetrajzi Fuzetek, 21, 427 - 431.

Friese, H. (1901) Monographie der Bienengattung Centris (s. lat.). Annalen des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, Wien, 15 (3 - 4), 237 - 350.

Friese, H. (1924) Neue formen der Bienengattungen Centris - Epicharis. Konowia, 3, 19 - 22.

Moure, J. S., Melo, G. A. R. & Vivallo, F. (2007) Centridini Cockerell & Cockerell. In: Moure, J. S., Urban, D. & Melo, G. A. R. (Eds.), Catalogue of Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in the Neotropical Region. Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia, Curitiba, pp. 83 - 142.

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FIGURES 13–16. Centris fusciventris scutellata Friese, 1901 (lectotype female). Fig. 13: Head, frontal view (Scale bar 2 mm). Fig. 14: Habitus, lateral view (Scale bar 5 mm). Fig. 15: Habitus, dorsal view (Scale bar 2 mm). Fig. 16: Labels.

ZMB

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Zoological Collections)

HNHM

Hungarian Natural History Museum (Termeszettudomanyi Muzeum)

MNHP

Princeton University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Apidae

Genus

Centris

SubGenus

Centris