Xylocopa cyanea Smith, 1874:296, ♂. ♂, Mexico (leg. Sichel). - 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); Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); Cockerell, 1899Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Catálogo de las Abejas de Mexico. Biblioteca Agricola de las Secretaria de Fomento, Mexico, 1-20. (distribution); Hurd, 1961Hurd, P.D. Jr. 1961. A synopsis of the carpenter bees belonging to the subgenus Xylocopoides Michener (Hymenoptera; Apoidea). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 87 (4):247-257. (distribution); Estrada de Léon & Ayala Barajas, 1995Estrada de Léon, M. & R. Ayala Barajas 1995. Abejas silvestres (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) de la Sierra del Tigre, Jalisco. Apicultura Moderna 7:12-24. (distribution); Ospina, 2000Ospina, M. 2000. Abejas carpinteras (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae: Xylocopini) de la región Neotropical. Biota Colombiana 1 (3):239-252. (distribution); Vergara & Ayala, 2002Vergara, C.H. & R. Ayala 2002. Diversity, Phenology and Biogeography of the bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Zapotitlán de las Salinas, Puebla, Mexico. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 75 (1):16-30. (distribution); Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004Yáñez-Ordóñez, O. & I. Hinojosa-Díaz 2004. La colección himenopterológica (Insecta) del Museo de Zoología Alfonso L. Herrera de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) 20 (1):167-197. (distribution).
Xylocopa singularis Pérez, 1901:111 - Hurd, 1961Hurd, P.D. Jr. 1961. A synopsis of the carpenter bees belonging to the subgenus Xylocopoides Michener (Hymenoptera; Apoidea). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 87 (4):247-257.:255 ( listed as synonym of Xylocopa cyanea Smith, 1874).