Centris atra Friese, 1899

Centris atra Friese, 1899: 41 .

Type data: Friese (1899) based this description in a composed series of five females belonging to two species collected in Brazil and Colombia. In 2018, Vivallo designated the lectotype fixing Blumenau, southern Brazil as the type locality. The lectotype is currently housed at NMW and it has the following data label: Brasil Blumenau 1897 Virgil [printed]\ Centris atra n. sp. ♀ [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed]\ [light blue label] LECTOTYPE Centris atra Friese, 1899 des. F. Vivallo, 2017 [printed] (NMW) . Paralectotype female with the following data label: Brasil Blumenau 1897 Virgil [printed]\ Centris atra Fr. ♀ Type! [handwritten] 1900 Friese det. [printed]\ [light blue label] PARALECTOTYPE Centris atra Friese, 1899 des. F. Vivallo, 2017 [printed] (HNHM) . Paralectotype female with the following data label: Centris atra n. sp. [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed] (NMW) . Paralectotype female with the following data label: [green label] Columbien [handwritten]\ 19761 [handwritten]\ Centris atra ♀ [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed] (ZMB) . The current condition and depository of the missing paralectotype are unknown.

Type locality: Brazil: Santa Catarina state: Blumenau .

Comments: The lectotype and paralectotype housed at HNHM were collected by the German plastic artist and portraitist Gustav Virgil who emigrated from Germany to Blumenau, southern Brazil (Krug 2010). For a complete resume of the taxonomic history of this species see Vivallo (2018).