Andrena pulchella Robertson, 1891:57, ♀. 7 ♀♀, Carlinville, Ill., August 30th to September 20th (leg. Robertson). - Robertson, 1895Robertson, C. 1895. Notes on bees, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 22 (2):115-128. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); Cockerell, 1896Cockerell, T.D.A. 1896. The bees of the genus Andrena found in New Mexico. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 6: v. 18:78-92. (distribution); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314. (distribution); Cockerell, 1914Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Bees visiting Helianthus. The Canadian Entomologist 46 (12):409-415. (distribution); Mitchell, 1960Mitchell, T.B. 1960. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume I. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 141:1-538.:137 ( listed as synonym of Andrena accepta Viereck, 1916); LaBerge, 1967LaBerge, W.E. 1967. A revision of the bees of the genus Andrena of the Western Hemisphere. Part I. Callandrena. (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Bul. Nebr. Univ. State Mus. 7:1-323.:62 ( listed as synonym of Andrena accepta Viereck, 1916); 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.:1779 ( listed as synonym of Andrena accepta Viereck, 1916); Michener, 2000Michener, C.D. 2000. The Bees of the World. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London. 1-913.:259 ( listed as synonym of Andrena accepta Viereck, 1916).
Andrena accepta Viereck, 1916:127, sex not indicated, Lectoallotype ♂ (Illinois Natural History Survey, Urbana, Illinois), designated by LaBerge, 1967LaBerge, W.E. 1967. A revision of the bees of the genus Andrena of the Western Hemisphere. Part I. Callandrena. (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Bul. Nebr. Univ. State Mus. 7:1-323.:66, Lectotype ♀ (Illinois Natural History Survey, Urbana, Illinois), designated by LaBerge, 1967LaBerge, W.E. 1967. A revision of the bees of the genus Andrena of the Western Hemisphere. Part I. Callandrena. (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Bul. Nebr. Univ. State Mus. 7:1-323.:66. Replacement name for Andrena pulchella Robertson, 1891 by Viereck, 1916Viereck, H.L. 1916. Preoccupied names in the genus Andrena (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 29:127.:127 (not pulchella Jurine, 1807). - Cockerell, 1931Cockerell, T.D.A. 1931. Rocky Mountain bees. II. American Museum Novitates 458:1-20. (distribution); Michener, 1947Michener, C.D. 1947. Bees of a limited area in southern Mississippi (Hymenoptera; Apoidea). The American Midland Naturalist 38 (2):443-455. (distribution); Mitchell, 1960Mitchell, T.B. 1960. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume I. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 141:1-538. (distribution); LaBerge, 1967LaBerge, W.E. 1967. A revision of the bees of the genus Andrena of the Western Hemisphere. Part I. Callandrena. (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae). Bul. Nebr. Univ. State Mus. 7:1-323. (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); Pascarella, 2006Pascarella, J.B. 2006. The bees of Florida. . (distribution); Owens et al., 2018Owens, B.E., L. Allain, E.C. van Gorder, J.L. Bossart & C.E. Carlton 2018. The bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Louisiana: An updated, annotated checklist. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 120 (2):272-307. (distribution); Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022Nava-Bolaños, A. & L. Osorio-Olvera 2022. Estado del arte del conocimiento de biodiversidad de los polinizadores de México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 93:1-77. (distribution).