Polistes major palmarum Bequaert, 1936:11, ♀xw. Holotype ♀, Palm Springs, Riverside County, California, April, 1928 (Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, Cambridge, Mass., leg. W.M. Wheeler); Paratype xw, Palm Canyon, Colorado Desert, Riverside County, California, August 17, 1927 (Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, Cambridge, Mass., leg. J.C. Bradley); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:447, Holotype ♀ (MCZ, Boston). - Bequaert, 1937Bequaert, J. 1937. The american Polistes with prepectal suture. Their structural characters, distribution and variation. Archivos del Instituto de Biología Vegetal, Rio de Janeiro 3 (2):171-205. (distribution); Bequaert, 1940Bequaert, J.C. 1940. An introductory study of Polistes in the United States and Canada with descriptions of some new North and South American forms (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 48 (1):1-31. (distribution); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (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 Polistes palmarum: - Hermann, Hermann, H.R. . The social wasps of Florida (Hymenoptera; Vespidae). :. (distribution); Somavilla et al., 2018Somavilla, A., M.L. Oliveira, S.R. Andena & J.M. Carpenter 2018. An illustrated atlas for male genitalia of the New World Polistes Latreille, 1802 (Vespidae: Polistinae). Zootaxa 4504 (3):301-344. (distribution).