Centristransversa Pérez, 1905

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Centristransversa Pérez, 1905

Fig. 4B

Centristransversa Pérez, 1905: 39–40.

Type data

This species was proposed based on specimens of both sexes collected by the French naturalist Léon Diguet (1859‒1926) in Tehuacán, Puebla State, Mexico. Diguet traveled to Mexico where he worked as a chemical engineer. During this stay, as well as following six trips he made to this country, he collected specimens for the MNHN. One male and two females of the type series are found in that collection being

one of these latter designated here lectotype. The female has the following data label: [black-rimmed light green label] MUSEUM PARIS MEXIQUE ÉTAT DE PUEBLA ENV. DE TEHUACAN L. DIGUET 1903 [printed]\ [black-rimmed] Centris [printed] (Hemisiella) transversa Pérez ♀ [handwritten] det. Snelling [printed] ’83 [handwritten]\ [light blue label] LECTOTYPE Centristransversa Pérez, 1905 des. F. Vivallo, 2017 [printed] ( MNHN) ( Fig. 4 B ).

Paralectotype female with the following data label: [black-rimmed light green label] MUSEUM PARIS MEXIQUE ÉTAT DE PUEBLA ENV. DE TEHUACAN L. DIGUET 1903 [printed]\ Centristransversa Typus Perez [handwritten]\ Centrisnitida Sm. R. du Burpron det. [handwritten]\ TYPE [printed in red] ( MNHN).

Paralectotype male with the following data label: [black-rimmed light green label] MUSEUM PARIS MEXIQUE ÉTAT DE PUEBLA ENV. DE TEHUACAN L. DIGUET 1903 [printed]\ [black-rimmed] Centris [printed] (Hemisiella) transversa Pérez ♂ [handwritten] det. Snelling [printed] ’83 [handwritten]\ [light blue label] PARALECTOTYPE Centristransversa Pérez, 1905 des. F. Vivallo, 2017 [printed] ( MNHN).

At NHMUK was found a female which apparently belonged to the type species of this species. However, it was collected in 1904 and not in 1903, as Pérez cited explicitly the year of collection of his specimens; therefore, here it is not interpreted as a syntype. That exemplar has the following data label: Mexique, Tehuacan L. Diguet 1904 [handwritten]\ Schulz Coll. 1908-157. [printed]\ Centris transversa Typus ♀ Pérez [handwritten]\ [black-rimmed red label] spec. typ. [printed]\ [red-rimmed circular label] Type [printed]\ B.M. TYPE HYM. [printed] 17B905 [handwritten] ( NHMUK).

Type locality

Mexico: Puebla State, Tehuacán.

Josef Anton Maximilian Perty

Josef Anton Maximilian Perty (1804–1884) was a German naturalist and entomologist. He was a professor of zoology at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, and at Universität Bern, Switzerland ( Hess 1887). Throughout his professional life, Perty published numerous articles on a wide variety of topics. All of them testify of a strictly scientific education, a wide knowledge of literature and a keen capacity for observation; but unfortunately, especially in his later years, also of a tendency towards miraculous and spiritualistic visions ( Hess 1887). Perty passed away in Bern, aged 80.

Perty’s Centris bees

Perty described a single species in Centris that was later transferred to Eufriesea Cockerell, 1908 ( Apidae : Euglossini), and three species in Xylocopa Latreille, 1802 ( Apidae : Xylocopini) that were later transferred to Centris . The type specimens of these species were collected by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix (1781–1826) and the German doctor, botanist and anthropologist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868) during an expedition to Brazil.

Figures

Fig. 4. Data labels. A. Centrisrhodophthalma Pérez, 1911 (lectotype ♀). B. Centristransversa Pérez, 1905 (lectotype ♀).