Pompilus phoenix Evans, 1948:123, ♂♀. Allotype ♂, California, Imperial County, Palo Verde, August 20, 1946 (will be deposited in the California Academy of Science, leg. P.D. Hurd); Holotype ♂, Arizona: Maricopa County, Phoenix, July 11, 1932 (will be deposited in the California Academy of Science); Evans, 1951Evans, H.E. 1951. A taxonomic study of the Nearctic spider wasps belonging to the tribe Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part III. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 77:203-340.:223, Type ♂ (C.A.S., no. 5952); 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.:375, Type ♂ (CAS, no. 5952). - Evans, 1950Evans, H.E. 1950. A taxonomic study of the Nearctic spider wasps belonging to the tribe Pompilini (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 1. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 75:133-270.:166 (key male); Evans, 1951Evans, H.E. 1951. A taxonomic study of the Nearctic spider wasps belonging to the tribe Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part III. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 77:203-340. (distribution), 225 (biology); Evans, 1953Evans, H.E. 1953. The Mexican species of the genus Pompilus (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 46:529-543. (distribution); 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); 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.:67 (listed); Evans, 1993Evans, H.E. 1993. New records of Pompilidae from the Southern Rocky Mountain States. Sphecos 24:15. (distribution); Shimizu, 1994Shimizu, A. 1994. Phylogeny and Classification of the Family Pompilidae (Hymenoptera). Bull. Nat. Hist. Tokyio Metropol. Univ. 2:1-142.:45 (listed); 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). - As Hesperopompilus phoenix: - As Perissopompilus phoenix: - Shimizu, 1994Shimizu, A. 1994. Phylogeny and Classification of the Family Pompilidae (Hymenoptera). Bull. Nat. Hist. Tokyio Metropol. Univ. 2:1-142.:45 (comb. nov.); Wasbauer & Kimsey, 2010Wasbauer M.S. & Kimsey, L.S. 2010. The Pompilidae of the Algodones Dunes, California, with description of new species (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 86 (1):2-9. (distribution).