Centris nigrescens Lepeletier, 1841:166, ♂. ♂, Cayenne (Musée de M. le comte Dejean). - Smith, 1854Smith, F. 1854. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. London. 465 pp, 8 pl. (distribution); Smith, 1874Smith, F. 1874. A revision of the genera Epicharis, Centris, Eulema, and Euglossa, belonging to the family Apidae, Section Scopulipedes [Continued from p. 322]. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 4: v. 13:357-373. (distribution); Burmeister, 1876Burmeister, H. 1876. Die Xylocopa-Arten des La Plata-Gebietes. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 37:152-183. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); Friese, 1900Friese, H. 1900. Monographie der Bienengattung Centris (s. lat.). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 15:237-350. (distribution); Vélez, 2012Vélez Velandia, E.D. 2012. . Dissertation , , 1-247. Bogotá, Colombia.:94 ( listed as synonym of Centris vittata Lepeletier, 1841).
Centris merrillae Cockerell, 1919:191, ♀. Holotype ♀, Manaos, Brazil (U.S.N.M., No. 21655, leg. H.B. Merrill); Vélez, 2012Vélez Velandia, E.D. 2012. . Dissertation , , 1-247. Bogotá, Colombia.:85, Holotype ♀ (USNM); Vivallo, 2020Vivallo, F. 2020. The bees of the genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 618:1-47.:17, Holotype ♀ (NMNH, No 21655). - Gaglianone et al., 2011Gaglianone, M.C., A.J. Camillo de Aguiar, F. Vivallo & I. Alves-dos-Santos 2011. Checklist das abelhas coletoras de óleos do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Biota Neotropica 11 (Supl. 1):657-666. (distribution); Vélez, 2012Vélez Velandia, E.D. 2012. . Dissertation , , 1-247. Bogotá, Colombia. (distribution); Vivallo, 2020Vivallo, F. 2020. The bees of the genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 618:1-47.:17 ( listed as synonym of Centris nigrescens Lepeletier, 1841).
Centris lanipes ogilviei Cockerell, 1936:632, Vivallo, 2020Vivallo, F. 2020. The bees of the genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 618:1-47.:16, Holotype ♀, examined (NHMUK, B. M. Type HYM 17B.920). - Vivallo, 2020Vivallo, F. 2020. The bees of the genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 618:1-47.:16 ( listed as synonym of Centris nigrescens Lepeletier, 1841).