Species

Error message

  • Deprecated function: Optional parameter $page declared before required parameter $type is implicitly treated as a required parameter in require() (line 5 of /mnt/web118/c2/77/51582777/htdocs/drupal/modules/hymis_core/hymis_core.module).
  • Deprecated function: Optional parameter $interval declared before required parameter $type is implicitly treated as a required parameter in require() (line 5 of /mnt/web118/c2/77/51582777/htdocs/drupal/modules/hymis_core/hymis_core.module).
  • Deprecated function: Optional parameter $char declared before required parameter $base_url is implicitly treated as a required parameter in require() (line 10 of /mnt/web118/c2/77/51582777/htdocs/drupal/modules/hymis_index/hymis_index.module).
  • Deprecated function: Optional parameter $page declared before required parameter $base_url is implicitly treated as a required parameter in require() (line 10 of /mnt/web118/c2/77/51582777/htdocs/drupal/modules/hymis_index/hymis_index.module).

Centris elegans Smith, 1874

Centris elegans Smith, 1874:372, ♀. ♀, Island of St. Vincent. - Cresson, 1879Cresson, E.T. 1879. Catalogue of North American Apidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 7:215-232. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); Ashmead, 1900Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Report upon the aculeate Hymenoptera of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London pt. II:207-367. (distribution); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32 (1):63-116. (distribution); Friese, 1909Friese, H. 1909. Beitrag zur Bienenfauna der Kleinen Antillen und der Bermudas. Zoologische Jahrbücher Suppl. 11 (Erstes Heft):34-40. (distribution); Cockerell, 1912Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. - XLI. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 9 (49):139-149. (distribution); Cockerell, 1919Cockerell, T.D.A. 1919. Bees in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 55 (2264):167-221. (distribution); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641. (distribution).
Centris gracilis Friese, 1900:350 - Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641.:553 ( listed as synonym of Centris elegans Smith, 1874).
Centris elegans grenadensis Cockerell, 1919:186, ♂. Holotype ♂ (U.S.N.M., 21648); Vivallo, 2020Vivallo, F. 2020. The bees of the genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 618:1-47.:9, Holotype ♂ (NMNH). Synonymized with Centris elegans Smith, 1874 by Vivallo, 2020Vivallo, F. 2020. The bees of the genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 618:1-47.:9. - Cockerell, 1919Cockerell, T.D.A. 1919. Bees in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 55 (2264):167-221. (distribution); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641. (distribution).

Sponsorship

The species Centris elegans Smith, 1874 has by now no sponsor. You can take the sponsorship for Centris elegans Smith, 1874 and here at this place your name and your foto would be placed.

With the sponsorship you support the further development, data update and improvment of data quality for all HymIS-projects.

If you have questions, just send us an email. If you want to take a sponsorship for a species, please send us an email (sponsorship@hymis.net) with your name and a picture with not more than 1 MB and of course the name of the species you want to adopt.

Have a look at one example page or read more...

Area distribution map

map of Centris elegans Smith, 1874

Distribution

GRDGrenada
 (Ashmead, 1900; Friese, 1909; Cockerell, 1919 [as Centris elegans grenadensis Cockerell, 1919]; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920 [as Centris elegans grenadensis Cockerell, 1919]; Vivallo, 2020 [as Centris elegans grenadensis Cockerell, 1919])
VCTSaint Vincent and the Grenadines
 (Smith, 1874; Cresson, 1879; Dalla Torre, 1896; Ashmead, 1900; Cockerell, 1906; Friese, 1909; Cockerell, 1912; Cockerell, 1919; Lutz & Cockerell, 1920)
WIIWest Indies
 (Cockerell, 1919 [as Centris elegans grenadensis Cockerell, 1919]; Cockerell, 1919)

Literature

  • Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Report upon the aculeate Hymenoptera of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London pt. II:207-367.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32 (1):63-116.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1912. Descriptions and records of bees. - XLI. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 9 (49):139-149.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1919. Bees in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 55 (2264):167-221.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1879. Catalogue of North American Apidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 7:215-232.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643.
  • Friese, H. 1909. Beitrag zur Bienenfauna der Kleinen Antillen und der Bermudas. Zoologische Jahrbücher Suppl. 11 (Erstes Heft):34-40.
  • Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641.
  • Smith, F. 1874. A revision of the genera Epicharis, Centris, Eulema, and Euglossa, belonging to the family Apidae, Section Scopulipedes [Continued from p. 322]. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 4: v. 13:357-373.
  • Vivallo, F. 2020. The bees of the genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 618:1-47.