Andrena simulata Smith, 1879:52, ♀. ♀, Mexico, Orizaba (British Museum); LaBerge, 1967LaBerge, W.E. 1967. A revision of the bees of the genus Andrena of the Western Hemisphere. Part I. Callandrena. (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Bul. Nebr. Univ. State Mus. 7:1-323.:193, Holotype ♀ (British Museum (Natural History), BM 17-a-1391). - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); Cockerell, 1899Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Catálogo de las Abejas de Mexico. Biblioteca Agricola de las Secretaria de Fomento, Mexico, 1-20. (distribution); LaBerge, 1967LaBerge, W.E. 1967. A revision of the bees of the genus Andrena of the Western Hemisphere. Part I. Callandrena. (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Bul. Nebr. Univ. State Mus. 7:1-323. (distribution); Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004Yáñez-Ordóñez, O. & I. Hinojosa-Díaz 2004. La colección himenopterológica (Insecta) del Museo de Zoología Alfonso L. Herrera de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) 20 (1):167-197. (distribution); Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022Nava-Bolaños, A. & L. Osorio-Olvera 2022. Estado del arte del conocimiento de biodiversidad de los polinizadores de México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 93:1-77. (distribution).
Andrena aureocincta Cockerell, 1896:88, ♂. ♂, Santa Fé, N. M., 1895 (leg. Myrtle Boyle); LaBerge, 1967LaBerge, W.E. 1967. A revision of the bees of the genus Andrena of the Western Hemisphere. Part I. Callandrena. (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Bul. Nebr. Univ. State Mus. 7:1-323.:193, Holotype ♂ (United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., No. 18228). Synonymized with Andrena simulata Smith, 1879 by LaBerge, 1967LaBerge, W.E. 1967. A revision of the bees of the genus Andrena of the Western Hemisphere. Part I. Callandrena. (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Bul. Nebr. Univ. State Mus. 7:1-323.:189. - Cockerell, 1900Cockerell, T.D.A. 1900. Observations on bees collected at Las Vegas, New Mexico, and in the adjacent Mountains. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 7: v. 5:401-415. (distribution); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314. (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.:1783 ( listed as synonym of Andrena simulata Smith, 1879).