Centris maroniana Cockerell, 1917

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 : 26

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.618
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3730255
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scientific name	Centris maroniana Cockerell, 1917
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Treatment

Centris maroniana Cockerell, 1917 View in CoL

Centris (Melanocentris) maroniana Cockerell, 1917: 475 View in CoL .

Type data

This species was described based on a single male specimen collected in Maroni, French Guiana. According to the original description, the specimen belonged to the Queensland Museum and was sent to Cockerell by Le Moult. Eugène Le Moult (1882–1967) was a French naturalist and entomologist specialist on butterflies who lived in French Guiana ( Lhoste 1987). The holotype is housed at AMNH and has the following data label: Guyane, Maroni. [printed]\ Centris maroniana Ckll. Type [handwritten]\ ac33337 [handwritten]\ AMNH _IZC 00323439 [data matrix code] [printed].

Type locality

French Guiana: Maroni (“ Guyane, Maroni”). It is not clear whether the type specimen was collected in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, one of the two sub-prefectures of French Guiana or near the Maroni River, a natural border between French Guiana and Suriname.

Comment

This is one of the most stunning species of the subgenus C. (Melanocentris). Unfortunately, nothing is known about its bionomy and distributional range.