- As Odontophotopsis melicausa melicausa: - 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).
Mutilla brevicornis Fox, 1899:255, ♂. ♂, Texas; Montana; Viereck, 1904Viereck, H.L. 1904. The species of Odontophotopsis. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 30 (1):81-92.:89, Type ♂ (Am. Ent. Soc. Phil.). - Fox, 1899Fox, W.J. 1899. The North American Mutillidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 25:219-300. (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.:33 ( listed as synonym of Odontophotopsis melicausa melicausa (Blake, 1871)). - As Odontophotopsis brevicornis: - Viereck, 1904Viereck, H.L. 1904. The species of Odontophotopsis. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 30 (1):81-92. (distribution).
Odontophotopsis mellicornis Baker, 1905:96 - 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.:33 ( listed as synonym of Odontophotopsis melicausa melicausa (Blake, 1871)).