Polybia cubensis Saussure, 1854:202, Meade-Waldo, 1911Meade-Waldo, G. 1911. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 7:98-113.:111, Type (Paris Museum); Bequaert, 1933Bequaert, J.C. 1933. The nearctic social wasps of the subfamily Polybiinae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Entomologica Americana 13 (3):87-149.:140, Holotype xw, Allotype ♂ (Paris Museum); Krombein, 1953Krombein, K.V. 1953. The wasps and bees of the Bimini Island Group, Bahamas, British West Indies (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). American Museum Novitates 1633:1-29.:8, Type (probably in Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland), Lectotype ♀, examined (MNHN, Paris), designated by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:317. - Guérin-Méneville, 1856Guérin-Méneville, M.F.E. 1856. Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba. Secunda Parte. Historia Natural. Tomo VII. Crustaceos, Aragnides é Insectos. Arthus Bertrand, Paris. 1-371. (distribution); Smith, 1857Smith, F. 1857. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London. 147 pp. (distribution); Guérin-Méneville, 1857Guérin-Méneville, M.F.E. 1857. Animaux Articulés. Arthus Bertrand, Paris. 1-868. (distribution); Cresson, 1865Cresson, E.T. 1865. On the Hymenoptera of Cuba. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 4:200 pp. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution); Ashmead, 1896Ashmead, W.H. 1896. Notes on the Hymenoptera. Collected by the Bahama expedition fromt the State University of Iowa. Bull. Lab. Nat. Sci. :28-32. (distribution); Lewis, 1897Lewis, B.S. 1897. Vespinae of the United States and Canada. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 24 (2):169-192, 1 pl. (distribution); Ashmead, 1900Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Report upon the aculeate Hymenoptera of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London pt. II:207-367. (distribution). - As Megacanthopus cubensis: - Ducke, 1908Ducke, A. 1908. Beiträge zur Hymenopterenkunde Amerikas. Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 8:695-700. (distribution); Meade-Waldo, 1911Meade-Waldo, G. 1911. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 7:98-113.:111 (comb. nov.). - As Mischocyttarus cubensis: - Wolcott, 1948Wolcott, G.N. 1948. The insects of Puerto Rico. The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 32 (4):749-975. (distribution); Krombein, 1953Krombein, K.V. 1953. The wasps and bees of the Bimini Island Group, Bahamas, British West Indies (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). American Museum Novitates 1633:1-29. (distribution); Alayo, 1973Alayo, P.D. 1973. Catálogo de los Himenopteros de Cuba. Instituto Cubano del libro, La Habana. 1-218. (distribution); Medina Gaud & Martorell, 1974Medina Gaud, S. & L.F. Martorell 1974. The insects of Caja de Muertos Island, Puerto Rico. Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 58:244-272. (distribution); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (distribution); Elliott et al., 1979Elliott, N., F. Kurczewski, S. Claflin, & P. Salbert 1979. Preliminary annotated list of the wasps of San Salvador Island, The Bahamas, with a new species of Cerceris (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae, Scoliidae, Vespidae, Pompilidae, Sphecidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 81 (3):352-365. (distribution); Zayas, 1982Zayas, F. de 1982. Sección Oligoneoptera - Orden Hymenoptera - Orden Strepsiptera. Editorial Científico-Técnica, Ciudad de la Habana. 1-111. (distribution); Elliott, 1992Elliott, N.B. 1992. Wasps of the Bahamas (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae, Tiphiidae, Pompilidae, Vespidae, Sphecidae). Proceedings of the fourth Symposium on the Natural History of the Bahamas :41-48. (distribution); Genaro, 1996Genaro, J.A. 1996. Nest parasites (Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera) of some wasps and bees (Vespidae, Sphecidae, Colletidae, Megachilidae, Anthophoridae) in Cuba. Caribbean Journal of Science 32:239-240. (distribution); Fernández et al., 2001Fernández T., J.L., G. Garcés G., E. Portuondo F., P. Valdés T. & I. Expósito E. 2001. Insectos asociados con flores de malezas del Jardín Botánico de Santiago de Cuba, con énfasis en Hymenoptera. Revista de Biología Tropical (International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation) 49 (3-4):1013-1026. (distribution); Fernandez et al., 2001Fernandez T., J.L., G. Garcés G., E. Portuondo F., P. Valdes T., and I. Exposito E. 2001. Insectos asociados con flores de malezas del Jardín Botánico de Santiago de Cuba, con énfasis en Hymenoptera. Revista de Biología Tropical (International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation) 49 (3-4):1013-1026. (distribution); Fernández Triana et al., 2002Fernández Triana, J.L., H. Saríol, M.A. Vega Castillo, S. Ricardo & M. González 2002. Datos preliminares sobre la biodiversidad del orden Hymenoptera en la provincia Granma, Cuba. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 31:43-48. (distribution); Rodríguez Velázquez & Mestre Novoa, 2002Rodríguez Velázquez, D. & Mestre Novoa, N. 2002. Lista de los Collembola e Insecta (Coleoptera, Dermaptera, Dictyoptera, Mantodea, Diptera e Hymenoptrera) de la Sierra de los Organos, Pinar del Río (Arthropoda: Hexapoda). Cocuyo 12:6-10. (distribution); Portuondo Ferrer & Fernández Triana, 2004Portuondo Ferrer, E. & J.L. Fernández Triana 2004. Biodiversidad del orden Hymenoptera en los macizos montañosos de Cuba oriental. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 35:121-136. (distribution); Fong et al., 2005 2005. Cuba: Parque Nacional 'Alejandro de Humboldt'. Rapid Biological Inventories Report 14. The Field Museum, Chicago. 1-368. (distribution); Maceira et al., 2005 2005. Cuba: Parque Nacional La Bayamesa. Rapid Biological Inventories Report 13. The Field Museum, Chicago. 1-242. (distribution); Rivero, 2006Rivero, A. 2006. Estudios de diversidad de insectos en la región Jibacoa-Hanabanilla. Macizo Guamuhaya. Centro Agrícola año 33 (no. 2. abr.-jun.):49-56. (distribution); Frago et al., 2010Frago, E., Portuondo Ferrer, E., Fernández Triana, J.L., Sariego, O. & Garcés Fonseca, J. 2010. Entomofauna del Parque Nacional 'Desembarco del Granma', Cuba Suboriental. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 46:355-362. (distribution). - As Mischocyttarus cubensis cubensis: - Bequaert, 1933Bequaert, J.C. 1933. The nearctic social wasps of the subfamily Polybiinae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Entomologica Americana 13 (3):87-149. (distribution); 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).
Polybia phthisica sensu Cresson, 1865:167, ♂♀ - 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.:1516 ( listed as synonym of Polybia cubensis Saussure, 1854).