Scolia modesta Smith, 1855:91, ♂♀.Philippine Islands (B.M.). - Saussure & Sichel, 1864Saussure, H. de & J. Sichel 1864. Catalogue des espèces de l'ancien genre Scolia, contenant les diagnoses, les descriptions et la synonymie des espèces, avec des remarques explicatives et critiques. Genève & Paris. 1-350, 2 pl. (distribution); Cameron, 1892Cameron, P. 1892. Hymenoptera Orientalis; or Contribution to a Knowledge of the Hymenoptera of the Indian Zoological Region, Prt. IV; Scoliidae. Memoirs and proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society ser. 4 (5):97-137. (distribution); Rohwer, 1921Rohwer, S.A. 1921. The Philippine wasps of the subfamilies Scoliinae and Elidinae. Philippine Journal of Science 19:75-90. (distribution); Osten, 2005Osten, T. 2005. Checkliste der Dolchwespen der Welt (Insecta: Hymenoptera, Scoliidae). Ber. d. Naturf. Ges. Augsburg 62:1-62.:16 (listed). - As Campsomeris marginella modesta: - Williams, 1947Williams, F.X. 1947. Aculeate wasps of Fiji. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 18 (21):317-336. (distribution); Yamane & Kusigemati, 1985Yamane, S. & K. Kusigemati 1985. Vespoidea and Scoliidae from the Fiji and Solomon Islands (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Kagoshima Unif. Res. Center S. Pac., Occasional Papers 5:75-79. (distribution); Abbate et al., 2018Abbate, A. J. Campbell, J. Bremer & W.H. Kern, Jr. 2018. The introduction and establishment of Campsomeris dorsata (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae) in Florida. The Florida Entomologist 101 (3):543-545. (distribution). - As Discolia modesta: - Ashmead, 1904Ashmead, W.H. 1904. A list of the Hymenoptera of the Philippine Islands with descriptions of new species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 12:1-22. (distribution). - As Micromeriella marginella modesta: - 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); Ramage et al., 2015Ramage, T., J. Grandgirard & G.G.M. Schulten 2015. The Aculeata of French Polynesia. II. First record of Micromeriella marginella modesta from Society Islands and Vanuatu (Hymenoptera, Scoliidae, Campsomerini). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 120 (1):87-90. (distribution).
Scolia manilæ Ashmead, 1904:8, ♀. Holotype ♀, Manila (U. S. National Museum, No. 7722, leg. Father W.A. Stanton). - Rohwer, 1921Rohwer, S.A. 1921. The Philippine wasps of the subfamilies Scoliinae and Elidinae. Philippine Journal of Science 19:75-90. (distribution); Williams, 1947Williams, F.X. 1947. Aculeate wasps of Fiji. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 18 (21):317-336.:321 ( listed as synonym of Campsomeris marginella modesta (Smith, 1855)); 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.:1317 ( listed as synonym of Micromeriella marginella modesta (Smith, 1855)); Ramage et al., 2015Ramage, T., J. Grandgirard & G.G.M. Schulten 2015. The Aculeata of French Polynesia. II. First record of Micromeriella marginella modesta from Society Islands and Vanuatu (Hymenoptera, Scoliidae, Campsomerini). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 120 (1):87-90.:87 ( listed as synonym of Micromeriella marginella modesta (Smith, 1855)).