chloris species-group Diagnosis. Small to moderate-sized species, body length ranges from 7.3-11.8; integument bright metallic green or bluish; yellow marks in females restricted to clypeus and legs; body densely punctated; clypeus with a narrow median longitudinal roughened area delimited by coarse punctures; metapostnotum microsculptured, basally rugoso-striate; preoccipital carina well developed; lateral areas of pronotum with strong carina forming lamella; metatibia in females with developed carina; graduli present on T2 to T4 or T5. Male: Apical margin of T7 slightly emarginated, rounded, rarely truncated; preapical margin of S5 with or without acute processes.

Published as part of Mahlmann, Thiago, Oliveira, Favízia Freitas de & Oliveira, Marcio Luiz de, 2023, Taxonomy of South American species of Ceratina (Calloceratina) Cockerell, 1924 with comments on new species-groups proposed for this subgenus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae), pp. 1062 in EntomoBrasilis (e 1062) (e 1062) 16 on page 2, DOI: 10.12741/ebrasilis.v16.e1062, http://zenodo.org/record/15865893