Lectotype designations and new synonymies in the Neotropical bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Author
Rasmussen, Claus
Author
Vivallo, Felipe
text
Zootaxa
2014
3856
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585
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3856.4.7
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Centris
(
Ptilocentris
)
horvathi
Friese, 1901
Centris horvathi
Friese, 1901
: 118
Centris horvathi
holotype
(♀):
Moure
et al
. (2007)
were unable to locate the
holotype
but it is in fact in HNHM. Friese examined a single female, the
holotype
, labeled “
Peru
/ Callanga”, “
Centris
♀ /
horvathii
/ 1900 Friese det. [printed] / n.sp.”. The species was named in honor of the HNHM Zoology section director, Géza Horváth (
1847–1937
), but original spelling in the description as “
horváthi
” or from the label as “horvathii” is incorrect (
Rasmussen & Ascher 2008
). Callanga was an Inca economic outpost in the Peruvian tropical Andean foot-hills where coca and other crops were grown centuries ago (
Gade 1999
). The collector of this specimen is not indicated, commercial collectors known to have been active in Callanga around the turn of the last century are the Garlepp brothers (
Gade 1999
;
Rasmussen 2012
), Gustav (
1862–1907
) and Otto (
1864–1959
), who likely collected the
type
specimen. The locality is the Rio Callanga, a tributary from Rio Piñi Piñi and Rio Alto Madre de Dios.
Moure
et al
. (2007)
suggested that Callanga is in Lima, west of the Andes, which is an error.