Mutilla plagiata Gerstäcker, 1874:65, sex not indicated.Aragua Columbiae (Mus. Berol.); Mickel, 1952Mickel, C.E. 1952. The Mutillidae (Wasps) of British Guiana. Zoologica (New York) 37 (3):105-150.:136, Holotype ♀ (Zoological Museum of University, Berlin, Germany, no. 6626). - As Pseudomethoca plagiata: - Mickel, 1952Mickel, C.E. 1952. The Mutillidae (Wasps) of British Guiana. Zoologica (New York) 37 (3):105-150. (distribution); Callan, 1990Callan, E.Mc C. 1990. Mutillidae of Trinidad. Sphecos 19:21-22. (distribution); Starr & Hook, 2003Starr, C.K. & Hook, A.W. 2003. The aculeate Hymenoptera of Trinidad, West Indies. Occasional Papers o the Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies 12:1-31. (distribution); Lo Cascio, 2015Lo Cascio, P. 2015. Worldwide checklist of the island mutillid wasps (Hymenoptera Mutillidae). biodiversity Journal 6 (2):529-592. (distribution); Pagliano et al., 2020Pagliano G., D.J. Brothers, R. Cambra, A.S. Lelej, P. Lo Cascio, M.M. Palmerini, P.L. Scaramozzino, K.A. Williams & M. Romano 2020. Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bolletino del Museo Regionale di Scienze naturali Torino 36 (1-2):5-425. (distribution).
Mutilla crenulata Smith, 1879:211, ♀. ♀, Venezuela (British Museum); Mickel, 1952Mickel, C.E. 1952. The Mutillidae (Wasps) of British Guiana. Zoologica (New York) 37 (3):105-150.:136, Holotype ♀ (British Museum of Natural History). Synonymized with Pseudomethoca plagiata (Gerstäcker, 1874) by Mickel, 1952Mickel, C.E. 1952. The Mutillidae (Wasps) of British Guiana. Zoologica (New York) 37 (3):105-150.:136. - Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution); Pagliano et al., 2020Pagliano G., D.J. Brothers, R. Cambra, A.S. Lelej, P. Lo Cascio, M.M. Palmerini, P.L. Scaramozzino, K.A. Williams & M. Romano 2020. Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bolletino del Museo Regionale di Scienze naturali Torino 36 (1-2):5-425.:112 ( listed as synonym of Pseudomethoca plagiata (Gerstäcker, 1874)).