Vespa chartaria Olivier, 1791:687, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:134, Types (lost). - As Chartergus chartarius: - 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); Cameron, 1912Cameron, P. 1912. The Hymenoptera of the Georgetown Museum. Part III. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of British Guiana 3rd ser. (2):207-231. (distribution); Meade-Waldo & Morley, 1914Meade-Waldo, G. & C. Morley 1914. Notes and synonymy of Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 14:402-410. (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); 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); 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).
Vespa nidulans Fabricius, 1793:271,Cajennae (Mus. Dom. Bose); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:134, Types (? MNHN, Paris, perhaps lost). - Smith, 1857Smith, F. 1857. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London. 147 pp.:134 ( listed as synonym of Chartergus chartarius (Olivier, 1791)); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:132 ( listed as synonym of Vespa chartaria Olivier, 1791), 134 ( listed as synonym of Chartergus chartarius (Olivier, 1791)).
Vespa chartifex Vallot, 1802:171, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:134, Types (lost). - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:134 ( listed as synonym of Chartergus chartarius (Olivier, 1791)).
Chartergus tuberculatus Cameron, 1906:155, ♂. ♂, Rio Branco, Obidos, Brazil (leg. C.F. Baker); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:134, Holotype ♂, examined (BMNH). Synonymized with Chartergus chartarius (Olivier, 1791) by Ducke, 1908Ducke, A. 1908. Beiträge zur Hymenopterenkunde Amerikas. Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 8:695-700.:696. - Meade-Waldo & Morley, 1914Meade-Waldo, G. & C. Morley 1914. Notes and synonymy of Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 14:402-410.:406 ( listed as synonym of Chartergus chartarius (Olivier, 1791)); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:134 ( listed as synonym of Chartergus chartarius (Olivier, 1791)).