Vespa pallida Olivier, 1791:675, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:266, Type ♀ (depository unknown). - As Apoica pallida: - Smith, 1857Smith, F. 1857. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London. 147 pp. (distribution); Cameron, 1906Cameron, P. 1906. On some Vespidae from Belize. Invertebrata Pacifica 1:150-153. (distribution); Bodkin, 1918Bodkin, G.E. 1918. Notes on some British Guiana Hymenoptera (exclusive of the Formicidae). The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1917:297-321, pls. XXI-XXIII. (distribution); Callan, 1950Callan, E.Mc C. 1950. Observations on tropical wasps in Trinidad. Eighth International Congress of Entomology. Stockholm :204-206. (distribution); 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); Halmenschlager et al., 2019Halmenschlager, M.Y., J.C. Agudelo Martínez & N.F. Pérez-Buitrago 2019. New records of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) for the Colombian Orinoco Region. Biota Colombiana 20 (1):21-33. (distribution); Valverde et al., 2019Valverde, P., P. Hanson & J. Carpenter 2019. Keys to the Costa Rican species of paper wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae). Revista de Biología Tropical (International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation) 67 (2):174-199. (distribution). - As Apoica pallida pallida: - Bequaert, 1943Bequaert, J.C. 1943. Color variation and distribution of Apoica pallida (Olivier), a nocturnal neotropical social wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 69:107-118. (distribution).
Apoica pallida Lepeletier, 1836:538,Cayenne, Amérique méridionale (Musée de M. Serville). - Bequaert, 1929Bequaert, J.C. 1929. The folded-winged wasps of the Bermudas, with some preliminary remarks on insular wasp faunae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 22 (4):555-582. (distribution); Bequaert, 1943Bequaert, J.C. 1943. Color variation and distribution of Apoica pallida (Olivier), a nocturnal neotropical social wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 69:107-118.:114 ( listed as synonym of Apoica pallida pallens (Fabricius, 1804)).
Apoica lineolata Lepeletier, 1836:537, xw.Buenos-Ayres, Amérique méridionale (Musée de M. Serville). - Bequaert, 1943Bequaert, J.C. 1943. Color variation and distribution of Apoica pallida (Olivier), a nocturnal neotropical social wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 69:107-118.:110 ( listed as synonym of Apoica pallida pallida (Olivier, 1791)).
Polistes translucida Spinola, 1851:79 - Bequaert, 1943Bequaert, J.C. 1943. Color variation and distribution of Apoica pallida (Olivier), a nocturnal neotropical social wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 69:107-118.:110 ( listed as synonym of Apoica pallida pallida (Olivier, 1791)).
Apoica virginea Saussure, 1854:107 - Bequaert, 1943Bequaert, J.C. 1943. Color variation and distribution of Apoica pallida (Olivier), a nocturnal neotropical social wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 69:107-118.:110 ( listed as synonym of Apoica pallida pallida (Olivier, 1791)).
Apoica bilineolata Saussure, 1854:108 - Bequaert, 1943Bequaert, J.C. 1943. Color variation and distribution of Apoica pallida (Olivier), a nocturnal neotropical social wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 69:107-118.:110 ( listed as synonym of Apoica pallida pallida (Olivier, 1791)).