Centris (Centris) aenea Lepeletier, 1841

Vivallo, Felipe, 2019, Lectotype designations, taxonomic notes and new synonymies in some species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Amédée Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Zootaxa 4624 (1), pp. 23-40 : 25

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Centris (Centris) aenea Lepeletier, 1841 View in CoL

Centris aenea Lepeletier, 1841 View in CoL . 163.

Type data: Lectotype female with the following data label: aenea [handwritten]\ type [printed in red ink]\ Museum Paris ouest Capite des Mines [printed]\ [circular label] Des Mines [handwritten]\ Type Lepelletier [handwritten] ( MNHP). Subsequent designation: Moure (1969).

Type locality: Brazil: Minas Gerais state .

Centris rufa Lepeletier, 1841 View in CoL . 153, 154.

Type data: Lectotype female with the following data label: Centris rufa Lep ♀ Brasilia [handwritten]\ Bras. [hand- written]\ Lectotype rufa [handwritten] Det. J. S. Moure 19 [printed] 57 [handwritten] ( OUMNH). Paralectotype female: Centris rufa Lep ♀ Brasilia [handwritten]\ Bres. [handwritten] ( OUMNH). Subsequent designation: Moure (1969).

Type locality: Brazil .

Comments: According to Moure (1969), he found two specimens of C. aenea deposited in MNHP, one from São Paulo state (“Capt. de St. Paul”) and another from Minas Gerais state (“Capitanerie des Mines”), choosing the latter as the lectotype indicating that this was expressly the specimen referred to by Lepeletier (1841). In the description of the species, only Minas Gerais was cited and no other localities. In the same article, Moure (1969) mentioned he studied two specimens identified as C. rufa from Brazil (“Brasilia”), designating lectotype the largest. Both specimens were found at OUMNH and they agree with the original description. According to it, the specimens of C. rufa came from the collection of Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean (1790–1845), a famous French mili- tary soldier who participated in the Napoleonic Wars and entomologist specialist in Coleoptera ( Gouillard, 2004). Dejean’s collection was split into several parts and sold shortly after his death ( Hope, 1846). Specimens of Dejean were absorbed by the collections of the French entomologists Jules Pierre Rambur (1801–1870) and Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville (1775–1858). This latter collection was newly split into two and incorporated to Spinola’s ( MNST) and J. O. Westwood’s ( OUMNH) collections ( Baker, 1994).

Lepeletier (1841) did not specify the provenance of the specimens of C. aenea . All types studied are in good condition.

This species was correctly interpreted by Vivallo & Zanella (2012) and Moure et al. (2007). Centris aenea is mainly a South American species, in Brazil it can be found in Bahia, Ceará, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte and São Paulo states ( Silveira et al., 2002).

The name “Brasilia” on the label of C. rufa , as well as in C. ferruginea and C. violacea (see below), refers to the ancient denomination of Brazil in Latin and not to the current capital of the country.

Taxonomic decision for synonymy: Moure (1969).

References

Baker, D. B. (1994) Type material in the University Museum, Oxford, of bees described by Comte Amedee Lepeletier de Saint- Fargeau and Pierre Andre Latreille (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Journal of Natural History, 28, 1189 - 1204. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939400770591

Gouillard, J. (2004) Histoire des entomologistes francais, 1750 - 1950. Edition entierement revue et augmentee. Boubee, Paris, 287 pp.

Hope, F. W. (1846) An address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Entomological Society of London on the 26 th January, 1846, by the Rev. F. W. Hope. Richard & John Taylor, London, 15 pp.

Lepeletier, A. L. M. (1841) Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hymenopteres. Vol. 2. Roret, Paris, 680 pp.

Moure, J. S. (1969) Notas sobre algumas especies de Centris da Guiana (Hym., Apoidea). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, 41, 114 - 123.

Moure, J. S., Melo, G. A. R. & Vivallo, F. (2007) Centridini Cockerell & Cockerell. In: Moure, J. S., Urban, D. & Melo, G. A. R. (Orgs.), Catalogue of Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in the Neotropical Region. Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia, Curitiba, pp. 83 - 142.

Silveira, F. A., Melo, G. A. R. & Almeida, E. A. B. (2002) Abelhas brasileiras Sistematica e Identificacao. Fundacao Araucaria, Belo Horizonte, 254 pp.

Vivallo, F. & Zanella, F. C. V. (2012) A new species of Centris (Paracentris) Cameron, 1903 from northeastern Brazil, with a key for the Centris species of the Caatinga region (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Zootaxa, 3298 (1), 1 - 16. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3298.1.1