Brachycistis carinatus Fox, 1899:283, ♂. Holotype ♂, California; Bradley, 1917Bradley, J.C. 1917. Contributions toward a monograph of the Mutillidae and their allies of America North of Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 43:247-290.:272, Type (American Entomological Society); Kimsey & Wasbauer, 2006Kimsey, L.S. & Wasbauer M.S. 2006. Phylogeny and checklist of the nocturnal Tiphiids of the Western Hemisphere (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Brachycistidinae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 15 (1):9-25.:20, Holotype ♂ (ANSP). - Cockerell, 1901Cockerell, T.D.A. 1901. Species of Brachycistis (Fam. Myrmosidae) from southern California. The Canadian Entomologist 33:340. (distribution). - As Brachycistis carinata: - Bradley, 1917Bradley, J.C. 1917. Contributions toward a monograph of the Mutillidae and their allies of America North of Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 43:247-290. (distribution); Malloch, 1926Malloch, J.R. 1926. Systematic notes on and descriptions of North American wasps of the subfamily Brachycistidinae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 68:1-28. (distribution); Wasbauer, 1971Wasbauer, M.S. 1971. A sex association in the genus Brachycistis (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 47:211-214. (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).