Centris lynchi Schrottky, 1902

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Centris lynchi Schrottky, 1902

Centris (Melanocentris) lynchi Schrottky, 1902a: 312 . Junior synonym of C. nigriventris Burmeister, 1876 ( Roig‑Alsina, 2000).

Type data: This species was described based on an undetermined number of specimens of both sexes collect‑ ed in the province of San Juan, northwestern Argentina. The type series was not found during the development of this research and it is apparently lost ( Roig‑Alsina, 2000).

Comments: Schrottky (1902a) dedicated this species to the Argentinean zoologist and ornithologist Enrique Lynch Arribálzaga (1856‑1935) who funded with his countryman the botanist, zoologist and geologist Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg (1852‑1937) in 1878 “El Naturalista Argentino”, the first journal of Natural History of Argentina ( López et al., 2008). This species occurs exclusively in Argentina with distribution records in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, La Rioja, Mendoza, San Luis, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Salta, and Tucumán ( Roig‑Alsina, 2000).