Polybia flavitarsis Saussure, 1853:199, Meade-Waldo, 1911Meade-Waldo, G. 1911. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 7:98-113.:111, Type (British Museum); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:321, Holotype ♀, examined (BMNH). - Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution); Lewis, 1897Lewis, B.S. 1897. Vespinae of the United States and Canada. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 24 (2):169-192, 1 pl. (distribution). - As Megacanthopus flavitarsis: - Ducke, 1908Ducke, A. 1908. Beiträge zur Hymenopterenkunde Amerikas. Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 8:695-700. (distribution); Meade-Waldo, 1911Meade-Waldo, G. 1911. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 7:98-113. (distribution), 111 (comb. nov.). - As Mischocyttarus flavitarsis: - Bequaert, 1933Bequaert, J.C. 1933. The nearctic social wasps of the subfamily Polybiinae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Entomologica Americana 13 (3):87-149. (distribution); Hermann & Chao, 1984Hermann, H.R. & J.T. Chao 1984. Distribution of Mischocyttarus (Monocyttarus) mexicanus cubicola in the United States. The Florida Entomologist 67 (4):516-520. (distribution). - As Mischocyttarus flavitarsis flavitarsis: - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (distribution).
Mischocyttarus flavitarsoides Zikán, 1949:236, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:321, Types ♀, examined (Inst. O. Cruz). Synonymized with Mischocyttarus flavitarsis (Saussure, 1853) by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:321.