Sphaerophthalma brachyptera Schuster, 1945 - Cambra & Quintero, 2017Cambra, R.A. & D. Quintero A. 2017. Sphaerophthalma pinedai sp. nov.: Primer registro de un mutílido braquíptero para América del sur (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Bol. Cient. Mus. Hist. Nat. 21 (2):220-230. (distribution). - As Photopsis brachyptera: - As Sphaeropthalma brachyptera: - 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); Pagliano et al., 2020Pagliano G., D.J. Brothers, R. Cambra, A.S. Lelej, P. Lo Cascio, M.M. Palmerini, P.L. Scaramozzino, K.A. Williams & M. Romano 2020. Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bolletino del Museo Regionale di Scienze naturali Torino 36 (1-2):5-425. (distribution).
Sphaeropthalma yavapai Schuster, 1958:19 (key),Arizona. - 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.:1288 ( listed as synonym of Sphaeropthalma brachyptera Schuster, 1945); Pagliano et al., 2020Pagliano G., D.J. Brothers, R. Cambra, A.S. Lelej, P. Lo Cascio, M.M. Palmerini, P.L. Scaramozzino, K.A. Williams & M. Romano 2020. Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bolletino del Museo Regionale di Scienze naturali Torino 36 (1-2):5-425.:39 ( listed as synonym of Sphaeropthalma brachyptera Schuster, 1945).