Rhopalidia pallens Lepeletier, 1836:539,Cayenne, Amérique méridionale (Musée de M. Serville); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:232, Types (? MIZSU, Turin). - As Angiopolybia pallens: - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (distribution); Carpenter & Vecht, 1991Carpenter, J.M. & J. van der Vecht 1991. A study of the Vespidae described by William J. Fox (Insecta: Hymenoptera), with assessment of taxonomic implications. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 60 (3):211-241. (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); Silveira et al., 2008Silveira, O.T., S.V. da Costa Neto & O.F.M. da Silveira 2008. Social wasps of two wetland ecosystems in brazilian Amazonia (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae). Acta Amazonica 38 (2):333-344. (distribution); Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009Rasmussen, C. & A. Asenjo 2009. A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 15:1-78. (distribution).
Polybia infernalis Saussure, 1854:195, Lectotype ♀, examined (MNHN, Paris), designated by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:232. - Zavattari, 1906Zavattari, E. 1906. Viaggio del Dr. Enrico Festa nel Darien, nell' Ecuador e regioni vicine. Bolletino dei Musei di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparada dela R. Universita di Torino 21 (529):1-22. (distribution); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:232 ( listed as synonym of Angiopolybia pallens (Lepeletier, 1836)).
Polybia ampullaria Möbius, 1856:133, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:232, Types (? ZM, Hamburg). - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:232 ( listed as synonym of Angiopolybia pallens (Lepeletier, 1836)).