Centris birkmannii Friese, 1899

Vivallo, Felipe, 2020, Species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Heinrich Friese (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Zootaxa 4820 (2), pp. 231-259 : 246

Centris birkmannii Friese, 1899

Centris birkmannii Friese, 1899: 44 . Junior synonym of C. lanosa Cresson, 1872 ( Snelling, 1974) .

Type data: This species was described based on specimens of both sexes collected by the Lutheran pastor and amateur entomologist Gotthilf Birkmann (1854‒1944) in Fedor, southern United States. Birkmann began collecting insects about 1885 and continued to do so until 1920. In 1899, he published a list of 307 species and varieties of bees and wasps collected at Fedor ( Burke 2016), the type locality of C. birkmannii . According to Moure et al. (2007) the type series is housed at AMNH and ZMB. The syntypes deposited in those collections were found, as well as unnoticed primary types in NMW. The single syntype female found in the AMNH is here designated the lectotype. The chosen specimen has the following data label: Texas Fedor [printed] 24.5 [handwritten] 1897 Birkmann [printed]\ Centris birkmannii n. sp. Fr. ♀ [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed]\ Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Dept. Invert. Zool. No. [printed] 28214 [handwritten]\ [black rimmed label] Centris birkmanni Friese [handwritten]\ [black rimmed label] C. (Penthemisia) lanosa Cr. [handwritten] det. J. S. Moure 19 [printed] 57 [handwritten]\ Centris (Paracentris) lanosa Cresson, 1872 det. J. S. Ascher [printed]\ AMNH _ENT AMNH _BEE 00014512 QR code [printed] ( AMNH). Paralectotype female with the following data label: Texas Fedor [printed] 24.5 [handwritten] 1897 Birkmann [printed]\ Centris birkmannii n. sp. Fr. ♂ ♀ [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed]\ Collect. Graeffe [printed]\ [red label] Paratype [printed] ( NMW). Paralectotype female with the following data label: Texas Fedor [printed] 4.5 [handwritten] 1897 Birkmann [printed]\ Centris birkmannii Fr. Typ. ♂ [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed]\ [red label] Paratype [printed] ( NMW). Paralectotype female with the following data label: Texas Fedor [printed] 15.6 [handwritten] 189 [printed] 8 [handwritten] Birkmann [printed]\ Centris birkmannii typ. Fr. ♀ [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed]\ [red label] Paratype [printed] ( NMW). Paralectotype male with the following data label: Texas Fedor 1898 Birkmann [printed]\ Centris birkmanni Fr. ♂ [handwritten] 1909 Friese det. [printed]\ [red label] Type [printed]\ Coll. Friese [printed] ( ZMB).

Type locality: United States: Texas state: Fedor ( Lee county ) .

Comment: Females can be recognized by the size of the first flagellomere slightly shorter than the flagellomeres 2, 3 and 4 combined. Males have the paraocular area and the mandible yellow, and the clypeus with dense punctation, absent on a longitudinal band in the middle of the disc.