Centris metathoracica Friese, 1912

Vivallo, Felipe, 2020, Species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Heinrich Friese (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Zootaxa 4820 (2), pp. 231-259 : 253

Centris metathoracica Friese, 1912

Centris (Hemisia) metathoracica Friese, 1912a: 200 .

Type data: This species was proposed based on ten females and one male collected by Buchwald in Guayaquil, southwestern Ecuador. According to Moure et al. (2007) the syntypes are housed at AMNH and in the ZMB, but they were not found in this latter collection. Instead, there were found syntypes in the HNHM and NMW, along with two specimens in the AMNH. One of the syntypes (female) housed in this latter collection is here designated the lectotype. The specimen is in good condition and it has the following data label: Ecuador Guayaqil 19101 Buchwald [printed]\ Centris metathoracica Fr. ♀ [handwritten] 1911 Friese det. [printed]\ Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Dept. Invert. Zool. No. [printed] 26482 [handwritten] ( AMNH). Paralectotype male with the following data label: Ecuador Guayaqil 19101 Buchwald [printed]\ Centris metathoracica Fr. ♀ [handwritten] 1911 Friese det. [printed]\ Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Dept. Invert. Zool. No. [printed] 28233 [handwritten]\ [white label] C. (Paremisia) metathoracica Fr. [handwritten] J. S. Moure 19 [printed] 63 [handwritten] ( AMNH). Paralectotype female with the following data label: Ecuador Guayaqil 19101 Buchwald [printed]\ Centris metathoracica Fr. ♀ [handwritten] 1911 Friese det. [printed]\ [orange label] Typus [printed] ( HNHM). Paralectotype female with the following data label: Ecuador Guayaqil 19101 Buchwald [printed]\ Centris metathoracica Fr. ♀ [handwritten] 1911 Friese det. [printed] ( HNHM). Paralectotype female with the following data label: Ecuador Guayaqil 1901 Buchwald [printed]\ Centris metathoracica Fr. ♀ [handwritten] 1911 Friese det. [printed]\ [orange label] Typus [printed] ( NMW). The current condition and depository of the remaining paralectotypes are unknown.

Type locality: Ecuador: Guayas province: Guayaquil .

Comment: This species was correctly interpreted by Moure et al. (2007).