The primary types of some species of Centris bees described by European entomologists in the 18th and 20th centuries (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

In this paper are presented notes on the primary types of some species oil-collecting bees genus Centris described by European naturalists and entomologists Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, Anders Christian Jensen-Haarup, Arthur Marie Joseph Vachal, Charles Émile Blanchard, Embrik Strand, Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville, Pérez, Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug, Ludwig Christ, John Obadiah Westwood, Josef Anton Maximilian Perty, Jules Dominique, Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister, Wilhelm von Dalla Torre, Massimiliano Spinola, Peter Cameron, Ferdinand Erichson. Information type status, locality depository provided. order to stabilize names, lectotype designations were made for rhodophthalma, C. sponsa var. asuncionis, transversa, Hemisia byssina Ptilotopus americanus. asuncionis is withdrawn from synonymy sponsa, revalidated raised level. proposed as nomen oblitum a new junior synonym trigonoides, protectum.