Centris nitens Lepeletier, 1841:163, ♀. ♀, Capitainerie de Goyan, au Brésil (Musée de France); Vélez, 2012Vélez Velandia, E.D. 2012. . Dissertation , , 1-247. Bogotá, Colombia.:56, Holotype ♀ (MNHP). - 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); 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); 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); Moure, 1943Moure, J.S. 1943. Abelhas de Batatais (Hym. Apoidea). Arquivos do Museu Paranaense 3:145-203. (distribution); Rasmussen et al., 2007Rasmussen, C., G. Mahé & I.A. Hinojosa-Díaz 2007. Taxonomic status of the bees from French Guiana described by Jules Dominique (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Megachilidae, Halictidae). Zootaxa 1423:59-62. (distribution); Imperatriz-Fonseca et al., 2011Imperatriz-Fonseca, V.L., I. Alves-dos-Santos, P. Souza Santos-Filho, W. Engels, M. Ramalho, W. Wilms, J.B Vicentin Aguilar, C.A. Pinheiro-Machado, D. Araújo Alves & A. Matos Peixoto Kleinert 2011. Checklist of bees and honey plants from São Paulo State, Brazil. Biota Neotropica 11 (1a):631-655. (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); Vélez, 2012Vélez Velandia, E.D. 2012. . Dissertation , , 1-247. Bogotá, Colombia. (distribution); Mahlmann & Oliveira, 2012Mahlmann, T. & F.F. de Oliveira 2012. A new species of Centris (Centris) (Fabricius) from northeastern Brazil, with taxonomic notes on C. (C.) pulchra Moure, Oliveira & Viana (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 255:49-65. (distribution); Oliveira Lima & Silvestre, 2017Oliveira Lima, F.V. de & R. Silvestre 2017. Abelhas (Hymenoptera, Apidae sensu lato) do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. Iheringia Série Zoologia 107 (supl.):1-14. (distribution).
Centris nigrescens Burmeister, 1876:163 - 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.:558 ( listed as synonym of Centris nitens Lepeletier, 1841); Vélez, 2012Vélez Velandia, E.D. 2012. . Dissertation , , 1-247. Bogotá, Colombia.:56 ( listed as synonym of Centris nitens Lepeletier, 1841).
Centris dominiquella Dominique, 1898:59, Lectotype ♀ (Nantes, drawer 10190), designated by Rasmussen et al., 2007Rasmussen, C., G. Mahé & I.A. Hinojosa-Díaz 2007. Taxonomic status of the bees from French Guiana described by Jules Dominique (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Megachilidae, Halictidae). Zootaxa 1423:59-62.:61; 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.:8, Lectotype ♀ (MHNN). Synonymized with Centris nitens Lepeletier, 1841 by Rasmussen et al., 2007Rasmussen, C., G. Mahé & I.A. Hinojosa-Díaz 2007. Taxonomic status of the bees from French Guiana described by Jules Dominique (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Megachilidae, Halictidae). Zootaxa 1423:59-62.:61.
Centris nitens callospila Cockerell, 1937:1, ♂. Holotype ♂, British Guiana: Waranama, Nov. 14, 1936 (The American Museum of Natural History, leg. J. Ogilvie); 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.:8, Holotype ♂ (AMNH, AMNH_IZC 00323434). - Vélez, 2012Vélez Velandia, E.D. 2012. . Dissertation , , 1-247. Bogotá, Colombia.:57 ( listed as synonym of Centris nitens Lepeletier, 1841). - As Centris callospila: