Polybia fasciata Saussure:182 - Smith, 1857Smith, F. 1857. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London. 147 pp. (distribution); Smith, 1862Smith, F. 1862. Descriptions of new speciews of aculeate Hymenoptera, collected at Panama by R. W. Stretch, Esq, with a list of described species, and the various localities where they have previously occured. Transaction of the Entomological Society of London ser. 3 (1):29-44. (distribution); Cameron, 1906Cameron, P. 1906. On some Vespidae from Belize. Invertebrata Pacifica 1:150-153. (distribution).
Polistes fasciata Lepeletier, 1825:171 - Schomburgk, 1848Schomburgk, R. 1848. Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-1844. Dritter Theil. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Webre, Leipzig. (distribution). - As Polybia fasciata: - Lepeletier, 1836Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, A. 1836. Histoire Naturelles des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Vol. 1. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 1-547. (distribution), 534 (comb. nov.); Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution); Zavattari, 1906Zavattari, E. 1906. Viaggio del Dr. Enrico Festa nel Darien, nell' Ecuador e regioni vicine. Bolletino dei Musei di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparada dela R. Universita di Torino 21 (529):1-22. (distribution); Ducke, 1908Ducke, A. 1908. Beiträge zur Hymenopterenkunde Amerikas. Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 8:695-700. (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); 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.:215 ( listed as synonym of Polybia emaciata Lucas, 1879).