Centris elegans grenadensis Cockerell, 1919

Fig. 4

Centris elegans grenadensis Cockerell, 1919: 186–187.

New junior synonym of C. (Centris) elegans Smith, 1874.

Type data

This subspecies was described based on a single male specimen collected by the American naturalist Herbert Huntington Smith (1851–1919) in Grenada, Lesser Antilles. Between 1890 and 1895, Smith spent much of his time in the employment of the West Indian Commission of the Royal Society in making collections in some of the Windward Islands of the West Indies (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago) (Holland 1919).

The holotype (Fig. 4) is housed at NMNH and has the following data label: Grenada W.I. H. H. Smith. [printed] 9 [handwritten]\ Centris elegans grenadensis Ckll. Type. [handwritten]\ [yellow label] USNM ENT 00534197 [barcode] [printed]\\ DO NOT REMOVE SI DB Reference Not a property tag T. Schultz NMNH [printed].

Type locality

Lesser Antilles: Grenada.

Comment

Centris elegans grenadensis only differs from C. elegans by the lighter hairs on hind legs and mesoscutellum (Fig 3B). At NMNH, there were found three males of C. elegans, with dark hairs on legs and mesoscutellum, which according to their labels were collected along with the holotype of C. elegans grenadensis.