Centris (Centris) obscurior Michener 1954
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Entomology Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164 - 6382, USA
- 2. Laboratorio de Entomología Sistemática Departamento de Biología, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala Apartado Postal 82, Guatemala Guatemala, C. A. 01901
Description
Centris (Centris) obscurior Michener, 1954
(Fig. 1–4)
Material examined. GUATEMALA, Alta Verapaz, Pamac Reserve, 1507 m alt., 15.419014 −90.606941, 15. VI. 2021, leg. S. Bossert & R. S. Zack, deposited WSUC [voucher code WSUC 00000001], 1♀.
Distribution. Centris obscurior was originally described from a single location in Panama (Michener 1954). A GBIF query (GBIF 2022a) for the species returned 60 georeferenced entries, 18 from Panama (3 localities), 18 from Mexico (8 localities, all of which are in Chiapas), and 24 from Costa Rica (13 localities). The DiscoverLife database (Ascher and Pickering 2022) lists three additional country or regional centroids without specifying the records or specimen repositories: Honduras, Colombia, and the state of Minas Gerais in Southeastern Brazil. The latter represents a significant distributional outlier and deserves further study. Because of the reported records north (Chiapas, Mexico) and south (Costa Rica) of Guatemala, the species likely has a continuous distribution in Central America, and the presented record fills the gap for Guatemala.
Comment. The single female specimen was collected at a water puddle formed by a mid-morning rain shower, where it was observed collecting water.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Michener
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Apidae
- Genus
- Centris
- Species
- obscurior
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Centris (Centris) obscurior Michener, 1954 sec. Bossert, Monzón-Sierra, Zack, García & Murray, 2023
References
- Michener CD. 1954. Bees of Panama. Bulletin of The American Museum of Natural History 104 (1): 1 - 176.
- GBIF. 2022 a. GBIF occurrence download for Centris obscurior, Michener 1954. Available at https: // doi. org / 10.15468 / dl. upd 5 ek. (Last accessed June 4, 2022).
- Ascher JS, Pickering J. 2022. Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) Available at https: // www. discoverlife. org / mp / 20 q? guide = Apoidea _ species. (Last accessed August 1, 2022).