Centris atra Friese, 1900:41, ♀. 2 ♀♀, Blumenau (Mus. Berlin, leg. G. Virgil); 2 ♀♀, Columbia (Mus. Wien), Lectotype ♀ (NMW), designated by Vivallo, 2018Vivallo, F. 2018. Taxonomic note on the type species of Centris (Melanocentris) (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Journal of Melittology 77:1-6.:3. - Friese, 1900Friese, H. 1900. Monographie der Bienengattung Centris (s. lat.). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 15:237-350. (distribution); Friese, 1900Friese, H. 1900. Neue Arten der Bienengattungen Centris und Epicharis. Természetrajzi Füzetek 23:117-120. (distribution); Cockerell, 1919Cockerell, T.D.A. 1919. Bees in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 55 (2264):167-221. (distribution); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641. (distribution), 561 ( listed as synonym of Centris xylocopoides Fox, 1899); Moure, 1995Moure, J.S. 1995. Reestudo de alguns tipos de abelhas neotropicais descritos por Friese e conservados no Museu de Berlim (Apoidea, Colletidae, Anthophoridae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 12 (4):939-951. (distribution); Starr & Hook, 2003Starr, C.K. & Hook, A.W. 2003. The aculeate Hymenoptera of Trinidad, West Indies. Occasional Papers o the Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies 12:1-31. (distribution); 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).