Nectarina azteca Saussure, 1857:280,Le Mexique (des terres chaudes de la province de Mexico); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:165, Lectotype ♀ (MNHN, Paris). - Saussure, 1868Saussure, H.de 1868. Hymenoptera. Familien der Vespiden, Sphegiden, Pompiliden, Crabroniden und Heterogynen. In: Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde. 1857–1859. Zoologischer Theil. part 1. Wien. 138 pp., 4 pl. (distribution); Meade-Waldo, 1911Meade-Waldo, G. 1911. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 7:98-113. (distribution). - As Brachygastra azteca: - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (distribution); Andena & Carpenter, 2012Andena, S.R. & J.M. Carpenter 2012. A phylogenetic analysis of the social wasp genus Brachygastra Perty, 1833, and description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Epiponini). American Museum Novitates 3753:1-38. (distribution). - As Nectarinia azteca: - Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution).
Chartergus mexicanus Cameron, 1906:154, ♀. ♀, Acapulco, Mexico (leg. Prof. C.F. Baker), Lectotype ♀, examined (BMNH), designated by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:165. Synonymized with Nectarina azteca Saussure, 1857 by Ducke, 1908Ducke, A. 1908. Beiträge zur Hymenopterenkunde Amerikas. Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 8:695-700.:695. - Meade-Waldo, 1911Meade-Waldo, G. 1911. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 7:98-113.:112 ( listed as synonym of Nectarina azteca Saussure, 1857); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:165 ( listed as synonym of Brachygastra azteca (Saussure, 1857)).