Apis iricolor Kirby:310 - Smith, 1874Smith, F. 1874. Monograph of the genus Xylocopa, Latr. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London :247-302.:281 ( listed as synonym of Xylocopa grossa (Drury, 1770)).
Apis grossa Drury, 1770:108, pl. XLV, fig. 3, sex not indicated.Jamaica. - As Xylocopa grossa: - Smith, 1874Smith, F. 1874. Monograph of the genus Xylocopa, Latr. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London :247-302. (distribution); Cresson, 1879Cresson, E.T. 1879. Catalogue of North American Apidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 7:215-232. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (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); Raw, 1985Raw, A. 1985. The ecology of Jamaican bees (Hymenoptera). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 29 (1):1-16. (distribution); Ospina, 2000Ospina, M. 2000. Abejas carpinteras (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae: Xylocopini) de la región Neotropical. Biota Colombiana 1 (3):239-252. (distribution).