Centris nitida Smith, 1874:368, ♀. ♀, Honduras. - Cresson, 1879Cresson, E.T. 1879. Catalogue of North American Apidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 7:215-232. (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); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32 (1):63-116. (distribution); Crawford, 1906Crawford, J.C. 1906. Some Costa Rican bees. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32 (2):157-163. (distribution); Cockerell, 1914Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Bees from Ecuador and Peru. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 22:306-329. (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); Cockerell, 1932Cockerell, T.D.A. 1932. Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) collected at Chichen Itzá, Yucatan, by the Harvard expeditions of 1929-1930. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 27:9-17. (distribution); Snelling, 1984Snelling, R.R. 1984. Studies on the taxonomy and distribution of American Centridine bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum Los Angeles County 347:1-69. (distribution); Ayala, 1988Ayala, R. 1988. Abejas silvestres (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) de Chamela, Jalisco, México. Folia Entomológica Mexicana 77:395-493. (distribution); Maes, 1993Maes, J.-M. 1993. Catalogo de los Apoidea (Hymenoptera) de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 26:11-30. (distribution); Estrada de Léon & Ayala Barajas, 1995Estrada de Léon, M. & R. Ayala Barajas 1995. Abejas silvestres (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) de la Sierra del Tigre, Jalisco. Apicultura Moderna 7:12-24. (distribution); Cooperband et al., 1999Cooperband, M.F., R.A. Wharton, G.W. Frankie & S. Bradleigh Vinson 1999. New host and distribution records for Leucospis (Hymenoptera: Leucospidae) associated primarily with nests of Centris (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae) in the dry forests of Costa Rica. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 8 (2):154-164. (distribution); Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004Yáñez-Ordóñez, O. & I. Hinojosa-Díaz 2004. La colección himenopterológica (Insecta) del Museo de Zoología Alfonso L. Herrera de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) 20 (1):167-197. (distribution); Quiroz-Garcia & Arreguin-Sánchez, 2006Quiroz-Garcia, D.L. & M. Arreguin-Sánchez 2006. Resource Utilization by Centris flavofasciata Friese (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Jalisco, Mexico. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 79 (3):249-253. (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); Gonzalez et al., 2012Gonzalez, V.H., J.S. Ascher & M.S. Engel 2012. A new Stelis (Dolichostelis) from northern Colombia (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): first records for South America and a synopsis of the bee fauna from the Caribbean region of Colombia. Journal of Natural History 46 (47-48):2919-2934. (distribution); Sagot et al., 2018Sagot, P, J. Mérida, R. Ayala & R. Vandame 2018. Situación actual del conocimiento de la fauna de abejas (Apoidea: Anthophila) del estado de Chiapas, México. In: (Ed.). Memorias X Congreso Mesoamericano sobre Abejas Nativas. 191-2011. (distribution); Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022Nava-Bolaños, A. & L. Osorio-Olvera 2022. Estado del arte del conocimiento de biodiversidad de los polinizadores de México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 93:1-77. (distribution).
Centris confinis Perez, 1905:40, Snelling, 1984Snelling, R.R. 1984. Studies on the taxonomy and distribution of American Centridine bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum Los Angeles County 347:1-69.:45, Type, examined (Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris); Vivallo, 2023Vivallo, F. 2023. The primary types of some species of Centris bees described by European entomologists in the 18th and 20th centuries (Hymenoptera: Apidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 864:1-27.:15, Lectotype ♀ (MNHN). Synonymized with Centris nitida Smith, 1874 by Snelling, 1984Snelling, R.R. 1984. Studies on the taxonomy and distribution of American Centridine bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum Los Angeles County 347:1-69.:45. - 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); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209. (distribution); Vivallo, 2023Vivallo, F. 2023. The primary types of some species of Centris bees described by European entomologists in the 18th and 20th centuries (Hymenoptera: Apidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 864:1-27.:15 ( listed as synonym of Centris nitida Smith, 1874).
Centris ruae Cockerell, 1949:474, ♂♀. Holotype ♀, Honduras: Zamorano, March 30 (U.S.N.M., No. 58880, leg. Rua Williams); Snelling, 1984Snelling, R.R. 1984. Studies on the taxonomy and distribution of American Centridine bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum Los Angeles County 347:1-69.:46, Type, examined (USNM, No. 58880); 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.:19, Holotype ♀ (NMNH, No 58880). Synonymized with Centris transversa Pérez, 1905 by Snelling, 1984Snelling, R.R. 1984. Studies on the taxonomy and distribution of American Centridine bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum Los Angeles County 347:1-69.:45. Synonymized with Centris nitida Smith, 1874 by 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.:19.