“…We checked the species distribution recorded in our research with information available on the literature for Neotropical region (Dressler, 1982a, b, c;Hinojosa-Díaz and Engel, 2014;Oliveira, 2006Oliveira, , 2007Ramírez et al, 2002Ramírez et al, , 2015, Brazilian Amazon Morato, 2004, 2006;Nemésio, 2005;Oliveira and Campos, 1995;Oliveira and Nemésio, 2003;Santos-Júnior et al, 2014;Storck-Tonon et al, 2009; Atlantic Forest and Cerrado (Nemésio, 2009(Nemésio, , 2010(Nemésio, , 2012bSilveira, 2007, 2010;Nemésio and Faria-Junior, 2004;Oliveira-Junior et al, 2015;Silva, 2012); and current studies carried out on the states of Pará and Maranhão (Antonini et al, 2017;Brito et al, 2017; Brito and Rêgo, Table 1. Composition, number of specimens recorded, frequency of occurrence (FO), dominance (D) and category (CAT) of orchid bees from entomological collections, with occurrence in the municipalities of Belém Endemism Center, eastern Amazon, Brazil.…”