Anoplius imbellis Banks, 1944:169, Paratypes (Oregon Agricultural College and in Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, no. 25734); Type (Oregon Agricultural College); ♀♀, Corvalis, 30 August, 4 September; ♀♀, Hillsboro, 25 September; ♂♂, Corvalis, 6, 25, 30 August; ♂♂, Cornelius, 4 August (leg. Scullen); Evans, 1950Evans, H.E. 1950. A taxonomic study of the Nearctic spider wasps belonging to the tribe Pompilini (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. Genus Anoplius Dufour. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 76:207-361.:348, Type ♀ (C.A.S., no. 5954); Evans, 1966Evans, H.E. 1966. A revision of the Mexican and central American spider wasps of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society :1-442.:337, Type ♀ (CAS, no. 5954). - Evans, 1950Evans, H.E. 1950. A taxonomic study of the Nearctic spider wasps belonging to the tribe Pompilini (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. Genus Anoplius Dufour. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 76:207-361. (distribution), 350 (biology); Junco y Reyes, 1959Junco y Reyes, J.J. 1959. Himenópteros de Espana. Fam. Pompilidae (=Psammocharidae) Gen. Anopilus Duf. EOS Revista Española de Entomologia 35:41-95.:51 (listed); Evans, 1966Evans, H.E. 1966. A revision of the Mexican and central American spider wasps of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society :1-442. (distribution); Kurczewski & Kurczewski, 1968Kurczewski, F.E. & E.J. Kurczewski 1968. Host records for some North American Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) with a discussion of factors in prey selection. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 41 (1):1-33. (distribution), 22 (hosts); Kurczewski & Kurczewski, 1973Kurczewski, F.E. & E.J. Kurczewski 1973. Host records for some North American Pompilidae (Hymenoptera). Third supplement. Tribe Pompilini. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 46 (1):65-81.:72 (hosts); 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); Wasbauer & Kimsey, 1985Wasbauer M.S. & L.S. Kimsey 1985. California spider wasps of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Bul. Calif. Ins. Surv. 26:1-130.:60 (listed); Kurczewski et al., 1987Kurczewski, F.E., E.J. Kurczewski & R. Norton 1987. New prey records for species of Nearctic Pompilidae (Hymenoptera). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 60 (3):467-475.:473 (prey); Evans, 1997Evans, H.E. 1997. Spider wasps of Colorado (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae): An annotated checklist. The Great Basin Naturalist 57 (3):189-197. (distribution); Kurczewski, 1999Kurczewski, F.E. 1999. Comparison of spider wasp faunas from two ecologically distinct sites in Erie County, Pennsylvania (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 72 (4):339-360. (distribution), 354 (biology); Horta Vega et al., 2009Horta Vega, J.V., M.E.García Gutiérrez, M.I. Benavides Martínez & A. Correa Sandoval 2009. Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) de algunos municipios del centro y sur de Tamaulipas, México. Acta Zool. Mex. (n.s.) 25 (1):71-82. (distribution); Leavengood, Jr. J.M. et al., 2011Leavengood, Jr. J.M., Waichert, C. & Rodriguez, J. 2011. A distributional checklist of the spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Florida. Insecta Mundi 0161 (March 2011):1-8. (distribution); Leavengood et al., 2011Leavengood, J.M., C.Waichert & J. Rodriguez 2011. A distributional checklist of the spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Florida. Insecta Mundi 0161:1-8. (distribution); Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2021Vanoye-Eligio, M., M. del C. Gómez-Camal, B. del R. Martín-Canché, M. Rosas-Mejía, J.V. HortaVega & V. Vanoye-Eligio 2021. Current knowledge of the family Pompilidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) in Mexico: diversity and geographical distribution. Zootaxa 5071 (4):505-536. (distribution); Fernández et al., 2022Fernández, F., J. Rodriguez, C. Waichert, B. Decker & J. Pitts 2022. Twenty two years later: An updated checklist of Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Zootaxa 5116 (4):451-503. (distribution).
Anoplius imbellis major Dreisbach, 1950:581, ♂. Evans, 1950Evans, H.E. 1950. A taxonomic study of the Nearctic spider wasps belonging to the tribe Pompilini (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. Genus Anoplius Dufour. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 76:207-361.:348, Type ♂ (M.C.Z., no. 28,389); Holotype ♂, Falls Church, Va., VI-29 (MCZ, leg. N. Banks). Synonymized with Anoplius imbellis Banks, 1944 by Evans, 1950Evans, H.E. 1950. A taxonomic study of the Nearctic spider wasps belonging to the tribe Pompilini (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. Genus Anoplius Dufour. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 76:207-361.:348. - Junco y Reyes, 1959Junco y Reyes, J.J. 1959. Himenópteros de Espana. Fam. Pompilidae (=Psammocharidae) Gen. Anopilus Duf. EOS Revista Española de Entomologia 35:41-95.:51 (listed); Evans, 1966Evans, H.E. 1966. A revision of the Mexican and central American spider wasps of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society :1-442.:337 (listed); 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.:1561 (listed); Wasbauer & Kimsey, 1985Wasbauer M.S. & L.S. Kimsey 1985. California spider wasps of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Bul. Calif. Ins. Surv. 26:1-130.:60 ( listed as synonym of Anoplius imbellis Banks, 1944).
Anoplius subimbellis Dreisbach, 1952:155, ♂. Holotype ♂, Falls Church, Va., VII-11 (MCZ, leg. N. Banks); Evans, 1966Evans, H.E. 1966. A revision of the Mexican and central American spider wasps of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society :1-442.:337, Type ♂ (MCZ, no. 28,331). - Evans, 1966Evans, H.E. 1966. A revision of the Mexican and central American spider wasps of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society :1-442.:337 ( listed as synonym of Anoplius imbellis Banks, 1944); 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.:1561 ( listed as synonym of Anoplius imbellis Banks, 1944); Wasbauer & Kimsey, 1985Wasbauer M.S. & L.S. Kimsey 1985. California spider wasps of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Bul. Calif. Ins. Surv. 26:1-130.:60 ( listed as synonym of Anoplius imbellis Banks, 1944).