Perdita mentzeliarum Cockerell, 1897:43 - Cockerell, 1902Cockerell, T.D.A. 1902. Flowers and insects in New Mexico. American Naturalist 36 (430):809-817. (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 Thurberia. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 16:31-32. (distribution); Timberlake, 1962Timberlake, P.H. 1962. A revisional study of the bees of the genus Perdita F. Smith, with special reference to the fauna of the Pacific Coast (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Part V. University of California Publications In Entomology 28 (1):1-124. (distribution); Timberlake, 1968Timberlake, P.H. 1968. A revisional study of the bees of the genus Perdita F. Smith, with special reference to the fauna of the Pacific Coast (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). Part VII. University of California Publications In Entomology 49:1-196. (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); 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).
Perdita mentzeliarum lauta Cockerell, 1905:145, ♂♀. 7 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂, five or six miles above Tularosa, New Mexico, end of August (leg. Professor E.O. Wooton). - Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314. (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.:1909 ( listed as synonym of Perdita mentzeliarum Cockerell, 1897).