Centris lutea Friese, 1899

Centris lutea Friese, 1899: 43 .

Type data: This species was described based on three females and one male collected in Brazil, Venezuela, and Mexico. Two females from Brazil and Venezuela were found at ZMB, being the Brazilian specimen here designated the lectotype. The exemplar has the following data label: [green label] Bras [indecipherable writing]\ 1675 [printed]\ Centris lutea n. sp . ♀ [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed]\ [white label with red lateral margins] LECTOTYPE [printed] Centris lutea Friese, 1899 [handwritten] desig. Melo, 2016 [printed]\ http://mfn-berlin.de/u/ 58fa47 QR code [printed] (ZMB). Paralectotype female Venezuela St. Parime 1897 [printed]\ [red label] Type [printed]\ Coll. Friese [printed]\ Centris lutea Fr. Typ . ♀ [handwritten] det. Friese 1910 [printed]\ [white label with yellow lateral margins] LECTOTYPE [printed] Centris lutea Friese, 1899 [handwritten] desig. Melo, 2016 [printed]\ http://mfnberlin.de/u/ 58fa47 QR code [printed] (ZMB). The current condition and depository of the remaining paralectotypes are unknown .

Type locality: Brazil .

Comments: The type locality cannot be further narrowed down than to Brazil. This species is similar to C. bicolor Lepeletier, 1841, differing for it by its larger size and by the pubescence of the lateral surface of the mesepisternum and pronotal lobe (black in C. lutea; yellow in C. bicolor).