Melissodes lupina Cresson, 1878:210, ♂. 6 ♂♂, California (leg. H. Edwards). - Cockerell, 1903Cockerell, T.D.A. 1903. A catalogue of the bees of California. Psyche 10:74-78. (distribution); Cockerell, 1905Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. The bees of southern California. VIII. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 4 (2):28-33. (distribution); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32 (1):63-116. (distribution); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314. (distribution); Cockerell, 1913Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Names applied to the Eucerine bees of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 43:261-273. (distribution); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641. (distribution); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209. (distribution); Mayer et al., 2000Mayer, D.F., E.R. Miliczky, B.F. Finnigan & C.A. Johansen 2000. The bee fauna (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of southeastern Washington. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia 97:25-32. (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). - As Eucera lupina: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution), 239 (comb. nov.). - As Melissodes lupinus: - Esperanza de Pedro, 2021Esperanza de Pedro, D. 2021. . :. (distribution).
Melissodes intermediella catalinensis Cockerell, 1905:102, ♀. Holotype ♀, Catalina I., Calif. (leg. Dr. Davidson). - Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:2155 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes lupina Cresson, 1878). - As Melissodes humilior catalinensis: - Cockerell, 1913Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Names applied to the Eucerine bees of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 43:261-273. (distribution); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641. (distribution).
Melissodes catalinensis vanduzeei Cockerell, 1923:86, ♀. Holotype ♀, Angeles Bay, Lower California, June 26, 1921 (Mus. Calif. Acad. Sci., No. 946, leg. F.P. Van Duzee).