Centrisamericanorum ( Lepeletier & Serville, 1825 )

Vivallo, Felipe, 2023, The primary types of some species of Centris bees described by European entomologists in the 18 and 20 centuries (Hymenoptera: Apidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 864, pp. 1-27 : 14

Centrisamericanorum ( Lepeletier & Serville, 1825)

Ptilotopusamericanorum Lepeletier & Serville, 1825: 239 (junior synonym of C. americana ).

Type data

This species was proposed based on at least two males collected at an undetermined locality. Moure & Seabra (1960) found two of those specimens in the Spinola collection at MSNT, designating one of them as lectotype, but without providing additional information about its data labels. Unfortunately, the primary type of this species was not available during the preparation of this research.

Type locality

Unknown.

Guillaume-Antoine Olivier

Guillaume-Antoine Olivier was a French naturalist and entomologist. He was a very active collector and made a lot of expeditions, he was a very close friend of the Danish naturalist Johan Christian Fabricius, who in 1804 described the genus Centris . Olivier died in France, aged 58.

Olivier’s Centris bee

Olivier proposed several new species of bees, but only one in Centris . The identity of this species was misunderstood, and it was only fixed recently by Vivallo (2016).