Centrislyngbyei Jensen-Haarup 1908

Centrislyngbyei Jensen-Haarup, 1908

Fig. 2B

Centrislyngbyei Jensen-Haarup, 1908: 107–108.

Type data

To describe this species, Jensen-Haarup mentioned that he studied four females collected in Chacras de Coria, Argentina.However, the characters cited in the description belong to males, not females.The lectotype specimen was designated by Zanella (2002) and it bears the following data label: [black-rimmed] Centris lyngbyei n. sp. J.- Hrp [handwriten] Jensen-Haarup det. [printed]\ [black-rimmed] Chacr. de Coria Prov. de Mendoza Rep. Argentina Jensen-Haarup [handwritten]\ [black-rimmed] Type Coll. J = Hrp. [handwritten]\ [red label] Holo [handwritten] TYPE [printed]\ [white label with black discontinuous strokes] Centris tricolor ♀ [handwritten] 1907 Friese det. [printed] Fr. [handwritten]\ [pink label] LECTOTYPE Centris lyngbyei Jensen-Haarup, 1908 F. Zanella, 1999 [printed]\ ZMUC 00240257 [printed] (NHMD) (Fig. 2B).

Type locality

Argentina: Mendoza Province, Chacras de Coria.

Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug

Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug (1775‒1856) was a German entomologist. He taught medicine and entomology at the Universität zu Berlin (currently the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) where he also worked as curator of the insect collection (Gerstaecker 1856). He died in Berlin, aged 80.

Klug’s Centris bees

In 1810, Klug proposed Ptilotopus as a new genus, including in it a single species that he described simultaneously. The species is currently considered valid, but the genus was later downgraded and included as a subgenus of Centris.

A couple of years before that publication, Klug (1808) published an article on sexual dimorphism in Hymenoptera, citing some examples in several genera of wasps, ants and bees. Among his comments on species of Centris, he cited “ byssina ”, a species of Hemisia that had previously been named by the German entomologist and zoologist Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775–1813) but that he never formally described. Klug provided some morphological features that allow the identification of this species and the sex of the specimens he studied, resulting in its formal description. The species remained unnoticed during all these years, until a visit to the ZMB where I studied the specimens described by Klug, which had previously been recognized as such by another entomologist. The researcher designated one of the specimens as lectotype, but unfortunately, the nomenclatural act was never published. To formalize this action and avoid future taxonomic problems, this designation is published here, acknowledging the previous work carried out by him.