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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps » Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Honey, Bumble, Long-horned, Orchid, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Centridine Bees (Centridini) » Centris

Genus Centris

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Centris (Paracentris) - Centris - male Xylocopa virginica krombeini? - Centris nitida - female Centris on oregano - Centris atripes small bumblebee? - Centris Centris Bee ZH3Z9851 - Centris errans Centris bees, different from C. pallida that flies in May. Centris rhodopus? - Centris rhodopus - female Centris? - Centris rhodopus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees)
Family Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)
Subfamily Apinae (Honey, Bumble, Long-horned, Orchid, and Digger Bees)
Tribe Centridini (Centridine Bees)
Genus Centris
Explanation of Names
Author: Fabricius
Numbers
22 spp. in 3 subgenera in our area, 212 spp. in 10 subgenera worldwide/total(1); C. nitida recently introduced into so. FL(2)
Identification
Rather robust bees; males have a yellow clypeus; in females the clypeus is either black or with yellow maculations
Range
Neotropics into FL and sw. US (map)(1)
Remarks
Many are highly specialized collectors of oils
Works Cited
1.Apoidea (Bees; Sphecoid wasps) on discoverlife.org
2.Naturalization of the oil collecting bee Centris nitida (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Centrini)...
By R.W. Pemberton, H. Liu
Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 18 May, 2007 - 3:31pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 14 November, 2011 - 12:49pm

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