Eumenes smithii Saussure, 1852:43, pl. 10, fig. 1, ♂♀.Florida (Musée de Londres); Bequaert, 1928Bequaert, J.C. 1928. A study of certain types of diplopterous wasps in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 10: v. 2 (7):138-176.:162, Holotype ♂ (British Museum); Grandinete et al., 2018Grandinete, Y.C., F.B. Noll & J. Carpenter 2018. Taxonomic review of Eumenes Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from the New World. Zootaxa 4459:1-52.:28, Syntypes (NHM & MNHN). - Smith, 1857Smith, F. 1857. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London. 147 pp. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution); Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376. (distribution); Grandinete et al., 2018Grandinete, Y.C., F.B. Noll & J. Carpenter 2018. Taxonomic review of Eumenes Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from the New World. Zootaxa 4459:1-52. (distribution). - As Eumenes smithii smithii: - 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).
Eumenes Belfragei Cresson, 1872:232, ♂♀. 7 ♂♀, Texas (leg. Belfrage, Boll, Heiligbrodt); Bohart & Menke, 1974Bohart, R.M. & A.S. Menke 1974. Names of some North American vespoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae and Eumenidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 47 (4):459-469.:461, Lectotype ♀ (ANSP); Grandinete et al., 2018Grandinete, Y.C., F.B. Noll & J. Carpenter 2018. Taxonomic review of Eumenes Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from the New World. Zootaxa 4459:1-52.:28, Lectotype ♀, examined (ANSP). Synonymized with Eumenes smithii americanus Saussure, 1852 by Bohart & Menke, 1974Bohart, R.M. & A.S. Menke 1974. Names of some North American vespoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae and Eumenidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 47 (4):459-469.:461. - Krombein, 1958Krombein, K.V. 1958. Superfamily Vespoidea. In: Krombein, K.V. (Ed.). Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico - Synoptic Catalog. Washington: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph No. 2. First Supplement, 305 pp. 162-169. (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.:1508 ( listed as synonym of Eumenes smithii americanus Saussure, 1852); Grandinete et al., 2018Grandinete, Y.C., F.B. Noll & J. Carpenter 2018. Taxonomic review of Eumenes Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from the New World. Zootaxa 4459:1-52.:28 ( listed as synonym of Eumenes smithii Saussure, 1852). - As Eumenes belfragii: - Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution). - As Eumenes smithii belfragei: - Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376. (distribution); Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2005Ruíz-Cancino, E., J.M. Coronado-Blanco & J.V. Horta Vega 2005. Conocimiento actual de las avispas depredadoras (Hymenoptera) en Tamaulipas, México. In: Lozano, L. B., A.C. Sandoval, J.V.H. Vega & J.G. Jiménez (Ed.). Biodiversidad tamaulipeca: vol. 1. 164-170. (distribution).