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Centris (Melanocentris) melanochlaena Smith, 1874
Centris melanochlaena
Type data: holotype BMNH 17B.1170 <M>.
Type locality: Mexico, Veracruz.

Epicharis zamoranensis Cockerell, T. D. A. (1949). Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 98: 429-490 [480] .
Type data: holotype USNM 58888 <F>.
Type locality: Honduras, Zamorano.

Distribution

Nearctic Region: Mexico (Sinaloa); Neotropical Region: Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico (Jalisco, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz)

References

Ayala, R., Griswold, T. L. & Yanega, D. (1996). Apoidea (Hymenoptera) pp. 423-464 in Llorente, J., García-Aldrete, A.N. & González-Soriano, E. (ed.) Biodiversidad, Taxonomía y Biogeografía de Artrópodos Mexicanos: Hacia una Síntesis de su Conocimiento. Mexico: IBUNAM/ UNAM/ CONABIO [457] (List, distribution (as Centris (Melanocentris) obsoleta))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1899). Catálogo de las abejas de México. México: Secretaría de Fomento 3-20 pp. [18] (Distribution (as Centris melancheaena [sic]))
Cockerell, T. D. A. (1906). The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 32: 63-116 [97] (Catalog, distribution (as Ptilotopus))
Dalla Torre, C. G. (1896). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Lipsiae: Guilelmi Engelmann Vol. 10 643 pp. [306] (Catalog, emendation (as as Centris melanochlaena))
Ducke, A. (1916). Enumeração dos hymenopteros colligidos pela Commissão e Revisão das espécies de abelhas do Brasil. Comm. Lin. Teleg. Estr. M. Gr. ao Amazonas 35: 3-209 [10] (Distribution, record from Mexico (uncertain identity, partim as Centris obsoleta))
Friese, H. (1900). Monographie der Bienengattung Centris (s. lat.). Ann. K-K. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 15 (3-4): 237-350 [242, 247, 270, 271] (Catalog, key, distribution, taxonomy, transcription of original description, descriptive note, cited (as Centris (Melanocentris) melanochlaena))
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 [557] (Catalog (as melanchlaena))
Schrottky, C. (1913). La distribución geográfica de los himenópteros argentinos. An. Soc. Cient. Argent. 75: 115-144 [261] (Catalog, distribution (record from Mexico, partim as Hemisia mocsaryi and record from Honduras, partim as Hemisia obsoleta))
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 [26, 27, 31, 34, 36] (Key, synonymy, note, distribution, floral records, comparative note (partim, as Centris (Melanocentris) obsoleta))
Vivallo, F. (2020). The bees of the genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Eur. J. Entomol. 618: 1-47 [26] (Note on type material of Centris zamoranensis)
Vivallo, F. (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: 151-176 [162] (Taxonomy, note on type material of Centris melanochlaena, as Centris (Melanocentris) melanochlaena)

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