Centris chilensis neoqueenensis Friese, 1924

Vivallo, Felipe, 2020, Species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Heinrich Friese (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Zootaxa 4820 (2), pp. 231-259 : 254

Centris chilensis neoqueenensis Friese, 1924

Centris chilensis var. neoqueenensis Friese, 1924: 21 . Junior synonym of C. cineraria Smith, 1854 ( Moure 1950) .

Type data: According to the original description, Friese (1924) used an undetermined number of males and females collected by the Hungarian zoologist Adolf Lendl (1862‒1943) in Neuquén, southern Argentina. In 1909, Lendl went to Argentina where he crossed the pampas and the Andes on foot ( Horváth 1970), so the specimens studied by Friese (1924) were obtained during this trip. One of the males of the type series was found at ZMB being here designated the lectotype. The specimen has the following data label: Dr Lendl Adolf Neuquen 1907. [printed]\ C. chilensis v. neoqueenensis Fr. ♂ [handwritten] 1910 Friese det. [printed]\ Coll. Friese [printed]\ [red label] Type [printed]\ Zool Mus Berlin [printed]\ [red label] Lectotypus [printed]\ = Centris cineraria neoqueenensis Moldenke’1978 [handwritten]\ [red label] Lectotype Centris chilensis neoqueenensis Friese, 1924 Des. F. Vivallo, 2014 [handwritten] ( ZMB). The current condition and depository of the paralectotypes are unknown.

Type locality: Argentina: Neuquén province .

Comments: Friese (1924) confused C. cineraria with C. chilensis , which led him to describe this new variety as related to the latter species ( Ruiz 1940). Centris cineraria is the species with the largest distribution record of the subgenus C. (Wagenknechtia) being present from central Chile and Argentina to the Patagonia ( Vivallo 2013). It is also the southernmost species of the genus and the tribe Centridini .