Centris (Ptilocentris) festiva Smith, 1854

Vivallo, Felipe, 2020, Lectotype designations taxonomic notes and new synonymies in some species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Frederick Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Zootaxa 4729 (2), pp. 151-176 : 169

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A5200288-5C6F-44F9-A0FB-0E479F871A62
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5918780
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scientific name	Centris (Ptilocentris) festiva Smith, 1854
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Centris (Ptilocentris) festiva Smith, 1854 View in CoL

Centris festiva Smith, 1854 View in CoL . 375.

Type data: This species was described based on an unknown number of females collected in an undetermined locality in Colombia. A syntype is currently housed at OUMNH and is here designated the lectotype. The specimen has the following data label: [Colum Goud [handwritten]\ [black-rimmed label] Holotype [printed] Centris festiva Sm ♀ [handwritten] J. S. Moure [printed] 1957 [handwritten]\ festiva . S. Col. [handwritten]\ Named as Centris festiva Smith 1854 in W.W. Saunders colln. OX. UNI.MUS.NAT. HIST. ( OUMNH). [printed].

Type locality: Colombia .

Comments: The type locality cannot be further narrowed down than to Colombia, but probably it was collected in the Andes. As Centris insignis (= C. laticincta ), the type specimen of this species was collected by Justin Gaud.