Parnopes chrysoprasinus Smith, 1874:454 - Cockerell, 1894Cockerell, T.D.A. 1894. Descriptions of new Hymenoptera. Entomological News 5:328-329. (distribution); Krombein, 1958Krombein, K.V. 1958. Superfamily Bethyloidea. In: Krombein, K.V. (Ed.). Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico - Synoptic Catalog. Washington: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph No. 2. First Supplement, 305 pp. 94-100. (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); Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376. (distribution); Conrow et al., 2016Conrow, R.T., K.M. Zivicki & G.P. Setliff 2016. Cuckoo wasps of Pennsylvania (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 142 (10):113-129. (distribution). - As Parnopes chrysoprasina: - Fox, 1893Fox, W.J. 1893. Report on some mexican Hymenoptera, principally from lower California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences ser.2 (4):1-25. (distribution).
Parnopes aglaspidula Melander & Brues, 1902:38 - Viereck, 1904Viereck, H.L. 1904. The North American cuckoo wasps of the genus Parnopes. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 30 (3):245-250. (distribution); Krombein, 1958Krombein, K.V. 1958. Superfamily Bethyloidea. In: Krombein, K.V. (Ed.). Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico - Synoptic Catalog. Washington: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph No. 2. First Supplement, 305 pp. 94-100.:96 ( listed as synonym of Parnopes chrysoprasinus Smith, 1874); 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.:1239 ( listed as synonym of Parnopes chrysoprasinus Smith, 1874).