Evania petiolata Fabricius, 1798:242,Americae Insulis (Mus. Dom. Lund). - Schletterer, 1889Schletterer, A. 1889. Die Hymenopteren-Gruppe der Evaniiden. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 4:107-180; 289-338; 373-546.:336 ( listed as synonym of Evania ruficeps (Shuckard, 1841)). - As Hyptia petiolata: - Dewitz, 1881Dewitz, H. 1881. Hymenopteren von Portorico. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 25:197-208. (distribution); Gundlach, 1887Gundlach, J. 1887. Apuntes para la fauna Puerto-Riqueña. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 16 (1):115-199. (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); Deans, 2011Deans, A.R. 2011. Evaniidae of Cuba (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Solenodon 9:55-65. (distribution); García-Andrade et al., 2018García-Andrade, D.J., E.R. Morales-Maldonado, D.L. Ojeda-Barrios & J.L. Jaboco-Cuellar 2018. Inventario faunístico de la familia Evaniidae (Hymenoptera: Evanoidea) en los estados de Yucatán y Quinatana Roo, México. Agrociencia 52:1107-1120. (distribution).