Tetrapedia testacea Smith, 1854:366, ♀. ♀, Brazil (Para) (leg. F. Smith); Aguiar & Melo, 2011Aguiar, A.J.C. & G.A.R. Melo 2011. Revision and phylogeny of the bee genus Paratetrapedia Moure, with description of a new genus from the Andean Cordillera (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Tapinotaspidini). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162:351-442.:384, Holotype ♀ (BMNH, Hym. 17.B.895). - Friese, 1899Friese, H. 1899. Monographie der Bienengattung Exomalopsis, Ptilothrix, Melitoma und Tetrapedia. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 14:247-304. (distribution); Alfken, 1933Alfken, J.D. 1933. Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Sammelreise nach Brasilien, inbesondere in das Amazonasgebeit, ausgeführt von Dr. H. Zerny. IX Teil. Hymenoptera: Apidae. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 45:303-307. (distribution). - As Chalepogenus testaceus: - Cockerell, 1923Cockerell, T.D.A. 1923. Some bees from British Guiana. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 9: v. 11 (64):442-459. (distribution). - As Paratetrapedia testacea: - Aguiar & Melo, 2011Aguiar, A.J.C. & G.A.R. Melo 2011. Revision and phylogeny of the bee genus Paratetrapedia Moure, with description of a new genus from the Andean Cordillera (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Tapinotaspidini). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162:351-442. (distribution).
Tetrapedia obtusa Vachal, 1909:27, Aguiar & Melo, 2011Aguiar, A.J.C. & G.A.R. Melo 2011. Revision and phylogeny of the bee genus Paratetrapedia Moure, with description of a new genus from the Andean Cordillera (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Tapinotaspidini). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162:351-442.:384, Lectotype ♀ (MNHN); Rasmussen, 2012Rasmussen, C. 2012. Joseph Vachal (1838–1911): French entomologist and politician. Zootaxa 3442:1-52.:38, multiple, unknown sex. - Aguiar & Melo, 2011Aguiar, A.J.C. & G.A.R. Melo 2011. Revision and phylogeny of the bee genus Paratetrapedia Moure, with description of a new genus from the Andean Cordillera (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Tapinotaspidini). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162:351-442.:384 ( listed as synonym of Paratetrapedia testacea (Smith, 1854)); Rasmussen, 2012Rasmussen, C. 2012. Joseph Vachal (1838–1911): French entomologist and politician. Zootaxa 3442:1-52. (distribution). - As Paratetrapedia obtusa: