Centris petreae rufopicta Cockerell, 1949

Vivallo, Felipe, 2020, The bees of the genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 618, pp. 1-47 : 22-23

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.618
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scientific name	Centris petreae rufopicta Cockerell, 1949
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Centris petreae rufopicta Cockerell, 1949 View in CoL

Centris (Melanocentris) petreae rufopicta Cockerell, 1949: 475–476 View in CoL .

Junior synonym of C. (Heterocentris) analis View in CoL ( Michener 1954; Moure 1960).

Type data

Cockerell (1949) described this subspecies based on a single male specimen collected by Rua Williams on January 11 at Zamorano, Honduras, apparently along with the type specimen of C. petreae . The head of the type is detached and stored in a pinned plastic recipient. The specimen is housed at NMNH and has the following data label: [?]\ Zamorano Honduras Jan. 11 Rua Williams [handwritten]\ Centris petreae rufopicta Ckll Type [handwritten]\ [red label] Type No [printed] 58882 [handwritten] USNM [printed].

Type locality

Honduras: Francisco Morazán Department: Zamorano.

Comment

Taxonomic decision for synonymy: Michener (1954) proposed C. durantae , C. petreae , C. petreae rufopicta and C. otomita Cresson, 1879 as junior synonyms of C. totonaca Cresson, 1879 . Subsequently, Moure (1960) synonymized the latter species and C. minuta Mocsáry, 1899 with C. analis .