Vespa multicolor Olivier, 1792:691, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:515, Type probably ♀ (depository unknown). - As Polistes crinitus multicolor: - Evans, 1972Evans, H.E. 1972. Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian Biological Survey of Dominica: Aculeate Wasps (Hymenoptera: Scolioidea, Vespoidea, Pompiloidea, Sphecoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 115:1-19. (distribution); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (distribution); Simonthomas, 1984Simonthomas, R.T. 1984. Notes on the Hymenoptera Aculeata from St. Martin, Saba, and St. Eustatius. Studies on the fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean islands 67:92-97. (distribution).
Polistes crinitus insulicola Bequaert & Salt, 1931:793, ♀xw. Holotype ♀, Basseterre, March 26, 1927 (Corn. Univ.); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:515, Holotype ♀ (Cornell Univ., Dept. Entomology). - Bequaert & Salt, 1931Bequaert, J.C. & G. Salt 1931. New West Indian Diploptera. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 24:765-797. (distribution); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:515 ( listed as synonym of Polistes crinitus multicolor (Olivier, 1792)).