Epitranus castaneus Cresson, 1865:100, sex not indicated. 4 specimens, Cuba (Ent. Soc. Philad); Burks, 1936Burks, B.D. 1936. The Nearctic Dirhinini and Epitranini (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 22 (5):283-287.:287, Type ♂ (Phil Acad. Nat. Sci., No. 1823). - Cresson, 1865Cresson, E.T. 1865. On the Hymenoptera of Cuba. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 4:200 pp. (distribution); Howard, 1885Howard, L.O. 1885. Descriptions of North American Chalcididae from the collections of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and of Dr. C. V. Riley. Bulletin of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 5:3-47. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1898Dalla Torre, C.G. 1898. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, V. Chalcididae et Proctotrupidae. Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, VII + 598. (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); Burks, 1936Burks, B.D. 1936. The Nearctic Dirhinini and Epitranini (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 22 (5):283-287. (distribution); Alayo, 1973Alayo, P.D. 1973. Catálogo de los Himenopteros de Cuba. Instituto Cubano del libro, La Habana. 1-218. (distribution); Arias & Delvare, 2003Arias, D.C. & G. Delvare 2003. Lista de los géneros y especies de la familia Chalcididae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) de la región Neotropical. Biota Colombiana 4 (2):123-145. (distribution); Noyes, 2019Noyes, J.S. 2019. Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. :. (distribution).