Phileremus mesillae Cockerell, 1895:10, ♂. ♂, Las Cruces, N. M., April 27, 1894, Neotype ♂ (CUM), designated by Onuferko, 2018Onuferko, T.M. 2018. A revision of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Epeolus Latreille for Nearctic species, north of Mexico (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 755:1-185.:122. - As Epeolus mesillae: - Brumley, 1965Brumley, R.L. 1965. A Revision of the Bee Genus Epeolus Latreille of Western America North of Mexico. M.S. thesis. Utah State University, Logan, Utah. iii + 92 pp. (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); Onuferko, 2018Onuferko, T.M. 2018. A revision of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Epeolus Latreille for Nearctic species, north of Mexico (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 755:1-185. (distribution); Esperanza de Pedro, 2021Esperanza de Pedro, D. 2021. . :. (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).
Epeolus mesillae palmarum Linsley, 1939:2, Brumley, 1965Brumley, R.L. 1965. A Revision of the Bee Genus Epeolus Latreille of Western America North of Mexico. M.S. thesis. Utah State University, Logan, Utah. iii + 92 pp.:55, Holotype (CAS); Onuferko, 2018Onuferko, T.M. 2018. A revision of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Epeolus Latreille for Nearctic species, north of Mexico (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 755:1-185.:122, Holotype ♀ (CAS, 04790). Synonymized with Epeolus mesillae (Cockerell, 1895) by Onuferko, 2018Onuferko, T.M. 2018. A revision of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Epeolus Latreille for Nearctic species, north of Mexico (Hymenoptera, Apidae). ZooKeys 755:1-185.:118. - Brumley, 1965Brumley, R.L. 1965. A Revision of the Bee Genus Epeolus Latreille of Western America North of Mexico. M.S. thesis. Utah State University, Logan, Utah. iii + 92 pp.:53 ( listed as synonym of Epeolus mesillae (Cockerell, 1895)).
Common names
Mesilla epeolus