Aphycus eruptor Howard, 1881:364, ♂♀.Northern Virginia (leg. Th. Pregande); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Fort George, Fla. (leg. Dr. R.S. Turner); Ashmead, 1900Ashmead, W.H. 1900. On the genera of the Chalcidid-flies belonging to the subfamily Encyrtidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 22:323-412.:385, Type (U.S.N.M., No. 2609); Timberlake, 1916Timberlake, P.H. 1916. Revison of the parasitic hymenopterous insects of the genus Aphycus Mayr, with notice of some related genera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 50:561-640, 5 pls.:630, Type (U.S.N.M., No. 2609). - 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). - As Metaphycus eruptor: - 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 1. Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1-1198. (distribution); Trjapitzin et al., 2004Trjapitzin, V.A., Bennett, F.D., Cancino, E.R. & Coronado Blanco, J.M. 2004. Annotated check-list of Encyrtids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae) of Central America, The West Indies and Bermuda. México. 1-205. (distribution); Perez-Gelabert, 2008Perez-Gelabert, D.E. 2008. Arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti): A checklist and bibliography. Zootaxa 1831:1-530. (distribution); Trjapitzin et al., 2008Trjapitzin, V.A., S.N. Myartseva, E. Ruíz-Cancino & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2008. Claves de géneros de Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) de México y un catálogo de las especies. :1-260. (distribution); Noyes, 2019Noyes, J.S. 2019. Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. :. (distribution); Tavares et al., 2019Tavares, M.T., M.E.V. Santos, A. Dal Molin, A.L.B.G. Peronti & C.R. Sousa-Silva 2019. Neotropical species of Metaphycus (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae) parasitoids of Ceroplastes (Hemiptera, Coccidae): New species, interaction records, and a checklist. Neotropical Entomology 48 (4):633-644. (distribution); Perez-Gelabert, 2020Perez-Gelabert, D.E. 2020. Checklist, bibliography and quantitative data of the arthropods of Hispaniola. Zootaxa 4749:1-668. (distribution).
Coccidoctonus ceroplastae Dozier, 1935:184 - Perez-Gelabert, 2008Perez-Gelabert, D.E. 2008. Arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti): A checklist and bibliography. Zootaxa 1831:1-530.:223 ( listed as synonym of Metaphycus eruptor (Howard, 1881)); Perez-Gelabert, 2020Perez-Gelabert, D.E. 2020. Checklist, bibliography and quantitative data of the arthropods of Hispaniola. Zootaxa 4749:1-668.:292 ( listed as synonym of Metaphycus eruptor (Howard, 1881)). - As Metaphycus ceroplastae: - Trjapitzin et al., 2004Trjapitzin, V.A., Bennett, F.D., Cancino, E.R. & Coronado Blanco, J.M. 2004. Annotated check-list of Encyrtids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae) of Central America, The West Indies and Bermuda. México. 1-205. (distribution).