Melissodes intorta Cresson, 1872:278, ♂. 2 ♂♂, Texas (leg. Belfrage); LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part II. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 38 (8):533-578.:561, Lectotype ♂ (Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). - Cresson, 1879Cresson, E.T. 1879. Catalogue of North American Apidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 7:215-232. (distribution); Cockerell, 1902Cockerell, T.D.A. 1902. Additions to the fauna of Mexico (Bees and Coccidae). The Entomologist 35 (470):177-178. (distribution); Cockerell, 1905Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Bees collected by the Rev. G. Birkmann in Texas (Continued from page 267). The Canadian Entomologist 37 (9):334-335. (distribution); Cockerell, 1913Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Names applied to the Eucerine bees of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 43:261-273. (distribution); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641. (distribution); LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part II. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 38 (8):533-578. (distribution); LaBerge, 1963LaBerge, W.E. 1963. New species and records of little-known species of Melissodes from North America (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 4 (10):227-240. (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. (distribution). - As Eucera intorta: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution), 236 (comb. nov.). - As Melissodes interta: - Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32 (1):63-116. (distribution). - As Melissodes interta: - Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32 (1):63-116. (distribution).
Melissodes wickhami Cockerell, 1906:112, ♀. Holotype ♀, Fedor, Texas, May 3, 1899 (leg. Birkmann); LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part II. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 38 (8):533-578.:561, Holotype ♀ (University of Colorado Natural History Museum, Boulder, Colorado). Synonymized with Melissodes intorta Cresson, 1872 by LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part II. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 38 (8):533-578.:558. - Cockerell, 1913Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Names applied to the Eucerine bees of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 43:261-273. (distribution); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641. (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.:2154 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes intorta Cresson, 1872).