Elis pollenifera Viereck, 1906:190, Holotype ♀, Hamilton Co., Kansas (University of Kansas, leg. S.J. Hunter); Bradley, 1928Bradley, J.C. 1928. A revision of the New World species of Trielis a subgenus of Campsomeris (Hymenoptera: Scolidiae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 54 (3):195-214.:209, Holotype ♀ (University of Kansas). - Osten, 2005Osten, T. 2005. Checkliste der Dolchwespen der Welt (Insecta: Hymenoptera, Scoliidae). Ber. d. Naturf. Ges. Augsburg 62:1-62.:19 (listed). - As Campsomeris pollenifera: - Bradley, 1928Bradley, J.C. 1928. A revision of the New World species of Trielis a subgenus of Campsomeris (Hymenoptera: Scolidiae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 54 (3):195-214. (distribution). - As Campsoscolia pollenifera: - Bradley, 1950Bradley, J.C. 1950. The most primitive Scoliidae. EOS Revista Española de Entomologia tomo extraordinario:427-438. (distribution), 434 (comb. nov.). - As Colpa pollenifera: - Ramírez-Guillén et al., 2022Ramírez-Guillén, L.D., A. Falcon-Brindis & B. Gómez 2022. The Scoliidae wasps (Hymenoptera: Scolioidea) of Mexico: taxonomy and biogeography. Zootaxa 5214 (1):47-88. (distribution). - As Trielis pollenifera: - 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); MacKay, 1987MacKay, W.P. 1987. The Scoliid wasps of the Southwestern United States (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae). The Southwestern Naturalist 32 (3):357-362. (distribution).