Centris (Ptilotopus) sponsa Smith, 1854

Vivallo, Felipe, 2020, Lectotype designations taxonomic notes and new synonymies in some species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Frederick Smith (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Zootaxa 4729 (2), pp. 151-176 : 170

Centris (Ptilotopus) sponsa Smith, 1854

Centris sponsa Smith, 1854 . 374.

Type data: Smith (1854) described this species based on an undetermined number of females. Moure & Seabra (1962) mentioned that the type of this species was housed at NHMUK, providing information on the data label of provenance. Moure & Seabra’s interpretation can be treated as a valid lectotype designation, according to ICZN (1999) Article number 74.6. The specimen has the following data label: sponsa . Sm Columb. [handwritten]\ Colum [handwritten]\ [black-rimmed label] Holotype [printed] Centris sponsa Sm [handwritten] J. S. Moure [printed] 1957 [handwritten]\ Named as Centris sponsa Smith 1854 in W.W. Saunders colln. OX. UNI.MUS.NAT. HIST. ( OUMNH). [printed].

Type locality: Colombia .

Comments: According to the original description and the information on the label, the lectotype specimen was collected in Colombia, but this species has never been recorded in northern South America ( Vélez & Vivallo, 2018). Centris sponsa occurs in northeastern and southeastern Brazil ( Silveira et al., 2002), so is very likely that the lectotype was mislabeled (as well as in C. maculifrons , see above) thus incorrectly recorded in Colombia. The type locality cannot be further narrowed down than to Colombia.