Centris inermis pallidifrons 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 : 11

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scientific name	Centris inermis pallidifrons Cockerell, 1949
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Centris inermis pallidifrons Cockerell, 1949 View in CoL

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Centris inermis pallidifrons Cockerell, 1949: 479 View in CoL .

Junior synonym of C. (Centris) varia View in CoL ( Snelling 1966; Moure 1969).

Type data

This subspecies was described based on an apparently large series of males collected by Wilmatte Porter Cockerell and Adan Rivera at Zamorano and Tegucigalpa on flowers of Duranta plumieri Jacq. (Verbenaceae) . Cockerell (1949) mentioned the type specimen was numbered “58887” but in the NMNH, two males with this number were found. One of them bears a label with the word “type” and the other is labeled “cotype”. The holotype ( Fig. 6 View Fig ) has the following data label: Zamorano Honduras Feb. 8 [handwritten]\ Mrs. [?] Williams [handwritten]\ 180. [handwritten]\ Centris inermis pallidifrons Ckll type. [handwritten]\ [red label] Type No [printed] 58887 [handwritten] USNM [printed]\ [yellow label] USNM ENT 00534207 [barcode] [printed]\\ DO NOT REMOVE SI DB Reference Not a property tag T. Schultz NMNH [printed]. The male paratype has the following data label: 180 [printed]\ Zamorano Honduras Feb. 2 [handwritten]\ Centris inermis pallidifrons Ckll cotype [handwritten]\ [red label] Paratype No [printed] 58887 [handwritten] USNM [printed]\ C. ( Centris ) i. gualanensis Ckll. [handwritten] Det. J.S. Moure 19 [printed] 57 [handwritten].

Type locality

Honduras: Francisco Morazán Department: Zamorano.

Comment

Snelling (1966) proposed the synonymy between this subspecies and C. inermis gualanensis . Moure (1969) synonymized both subspecies, along with C. robusta , with C. inermis . Later, Roig-Alsina (2000) cited C. inermis in the synonymy of C. varia .