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Centris (Heterocentris) Cockerell, 1899
Gundlachia Cresson, E. T. (1865). On the Hymenoptera of Cuba. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Phila. 4: 1-200 [195] (junior homonym of Gundlachia Pfeiffer, 1850) .
Type species: Centris? cornuta Cresson, 1865 by monotypy.

Heterocentris Cockerell, T. D. A. (1899). Notes on the nomenclature of some Hymenoptera. Entomologist 32: 14 [14] (nom. nov. for Gundlachia Cresson, 1865) .
Type species: Centris? cornuta Cresson, 1865 by original designation.

Rhodocentris
Subsequent designation: Sandhouse, G. A. (1943). The type species of the genera and subgenera of bees. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 92: 519-619 [596] .
Type species: Centris cornuta Cresson, 1865 by subsequent designation, see Sandhouse, G. A. (1943). The type species of the genera and subgenera of bees. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 92: 519-619 [596] .

Distribution

Neotropical Region: Brazil (Acre [Senador Guiomard], Amazonas [Manaus], Bahia [Feira De Santana, Mata De São João, Salvador], Ceará [Baturité, Fortaleza], Goiás [Goiás, Goiânia], Mato Grosso [Cáceres], Mato Grosso do Sul [Ivinhema, Porto Murtinho], Minas Gerais [Diamantina, São Gonçalo Do Rio Preto, Uberlândia], Paraná [Palotina, São José Dos Pinhais], Pará [Belém, Santarém, Óbidos], Pernambuco [Caruaru, Paudalho], Piauí, São Paulo [Batatais, Ribeirão Preto, Rio Claro]), Colombia (Sucre), Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras (Francisco Morazán), Mexico (Chiapas, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosi, Veracruz, Yucatan), Panama (Chiriquí, Panamá), Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela

References

Alfken, J. D. (1903). Zur Kenntnis einiger Centris-Arten. Z. Syst. Hymenopterol. Dipterol. 3: 211-213 [213] (Discussion (as Centris (Rhodocentris)))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1906). The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 32: 63-116 [105] (Citation)
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1910). Some neotropical bees. Psyche 17: 142-144 [142] (Citation (as Centris (Rhodocentris)))
Lutz, F. E. & Cockerell, T. D. A. (1920). Notes on distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 42: 491-641 [550, 568] (Catalog (as Centris (Rhodocentris)))
Michener, C. D. (1951). Subgeneric groups of Hemisia (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). J. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 24 (1): 1-11 [2, 6, 9] (Key, systematics, redescription (as Hemisia (Heterocentris)))
Michener, C. D. (1954). Bees of Panamá. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 104 (1): 1-175 [140] (Citation (as Centris (Heterocentris)))
Moure, J. S. (1945). Apoidea da Coleção do Conde Amadeu Barbiellini. II. (Hym. Apoidea). Rev. Entomol. (Rio J.) 16 (3): 394-414 [402] (Redescription (as Heterocentris))
Sandhouse, G. A. (1943). The type species of the genera and subgenera of bees. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 92: 519-619 [555, 558] (Cited (as Centris (Heterocentris)))
Snelling, R. R. (1984). Studies on the taxonomy and distribution of American Centridini bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co. 347: 1-69 [34, 46-48] (Descriptive note, taxonomy, description, key, comparative note (as Centris (Heterocentris)))
Thiele, R. (2003). A review of Central American Centris (Heterocentris) and evidence for male dimorphism in C. labrosa (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Mitt. Mus. Nat.kd. Berl., Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 50 (2): 237-242 [237, 238, 240, 241, 242] (Taxonomy, key to species (as Centris (Heterocentris)))
Zanella, F. C. V. (2002). Sistemática, filogenia e distribuição geográfica das espécies sul-americanas de Centris (Paracentris) Cameron, 1903 e de Centris (Penthemisia) Moure, 1950, incluindo uma análise filogenética do "grupo Centris" sensu Ayala 1998 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Centridini). Rev. Bras. Entomol. 46 (4): 435-488 [436] (Cited (as Centris (Heterocentris)))

Online since: 23 Jul 2008
Last update : 17 Jul 2023

Available Species

Centris (Heterocentris) adunca Moure, 2003
Centris (Heterocentris) analis (Fabricius, 1804)
Centris (Heterocentris) bicornuta Mocsáry, 1899
Centris (Heterocentris) ceratops Vélez & Vivallo, 2012
Centris (Heterocentris) cornuta Cresson, 1865
Centris (Heterocentris) difformis Smith, 1854
Centris (Heterocentris) flavicans Moure, 2003
Centris (Heterocentris) labrosa Friese, 1899
Centris (Heterocentris) semilabrosa (Cockerell, 1910)
Centris (Heterocentris) terminata Smith, 1874
Centris (Heterocentris) triangulifera Cockerell, 1949