Polistes multipictus Haliday, 1836:322, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:253, Holotype ♀, examined (BMNH). - As Agelaia multipicta multipicta: - Maes, 1999 1999. Catalogo de los insectos y artropodos terrestres de Nicaragua. Volumen III. León, Nicaragua. 1170-1898. (distribution). - As Stelopolybia multipicta multipicta: - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (distribution).
Polybia anceps Saussure, 1854:190, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:255, Holotype ♀, examined (BMNH). - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:255 ( listed as synonym of Stelopolybia multipicta multipicta (Haliday, 1836)).
Polybia meridionalis Ihering, 1904:211, Lectotype ♀, examined (Mus. Paulista), designated by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:254. - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:254 ( listed as synonym of Stelopolybia multipicta multipicta (Haliday, 1836)). - As Stelopolybia meridionalis: - Rohwer, 1913Rohwer, S.A. 1913. Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911. Hymenoptera, Superfamilies Vespoidea and Sphecoidea. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 44:439-454. (distribution); Rohwer, 1915Rohwer, S.A. 1915. Vespoid and sphecoid Hymenoptera collected in Guatemala by W. P. Cockerell. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47:513-523. (distribution).
Gymnopolybia meridionalis obscura Araujo, 1940:13, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:255, Holotype ♀, examined (Inst. Biol., S. Paulo). Synonymized with Stelopolybia multipicta multipicta (Haliday, 1836) by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:255.
Stelopolybia pallipes bequaerti Richards, 1951:74, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:254, Holotype ♀, examined (BMNH). Synonymized with Stelopolybia multipicta multipicta (Haliday, 1836) by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:254.