Polistes cincta Lepeletier, 1836:522, xw.Ile de la Martinique (Musée de M. Serville); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:478, Type ♀ (probably MIZSU, Turin). - Viereck, 1925Viereck, H.L. 1925. The wasp-like insects or Hymenoptera, exclusive of ants, collected by the Barbados-Antigua expedition from the University of Iowa in 1918. Studies in Natural History. University of Iowa 11:1-11. (distribution). - As Polistes canadensis cinctus: - Bequaert, 1929Bequaert, J.C. 1929. The folded-winged wasps of the Bermudas, with some preliminary remarks on insular wasp faunae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 22 (4):555-582. (distribution). - As Polistes candensis cinctus: - Bequaert, 1940Bequaert, J.C. 1940. An introductory study of Polistes in the United States and Canada with descriptions of some new North and South American forms (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 48 (1):1-31. (distribution). - As Polistes cinctus: - Ashmead, 1900Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Report upon the aculeate Hymenoptera of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London pt. II:207-367. (distribution). - As Polistes cinctus cinctus: - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (distribution).