Augochlora nigrocyanea Cockerell, 1897:144, ♀. ♀, San Rafael, Vera Cruz, Mexico, July 1 (leg. C.H.T. Townsend); Sandhouse, 1937Sandhouse, G.A. 1937. The bees of the genera Augochlora, Augochloropsis, and Augochlorella occuring in the United States (Hymenoptera; Apoidea). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 27 (2):65-79.:79, Type ♀ (U. S. National Mueum). - Cockerell, 1897Cockerell, T.D.A. 1897. On the Mexican bees of the genus Augochlora. The Canadian Entomologist 29 (1):4-6. (distribution); Cockerell, 1899Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Catálogo de las Abejas de Mexico. Biblioteca Agricola de las Secretaria de Fomento, Mexico, 1-20. (distribution); Cockerell, 1913Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Descriptions and records of bees. - XLVIII. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 11 (61):54-65. (distribution); Cockerell, 1918Cockerell, T.D.A. 1918. Descriptions and records of bees. - LXXXI. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 9: v. 2 (11):418-425. (distribution); Cockerell, 1928Cockerell, T.D.A. 1928. Bees collected by Nathan Banks in the vicinity of the Panama Canal. Psyche 35:173-181. (distribution); Cockerell, 1932Cockerell, T.D.A. 1932. Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) collected at Chichen Itzá, Yucatan, by the Harvard expeditions of 1929-1930. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 27:9-17. (distribution); Schwarz, 1934Schwarz, H.F. 1934. The solitary bees of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. American Museum Novitates 722:1-24. (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); Ayala, 1988Ayala, R. 1988. Abejas silvestres (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) de Chamela, Jalisco, México. Folia Entomológica Mexicana 77:395-493. (distribution); Estrada de Léon & Ayala Barajas, 1995Estrada de Léon, M. & R. Ayala Barajas 1995. Abejas silvestres (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) de la Sierra del Tigre, Jalisco. Apicultura Moderna 7:12-24. (distribution); Vergara & Ayala, 2002Vergara, C.H. & R. Ayala 2002. Diversity, Phenology and Biogeography of the bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Zapotitlán de las Salinas, Puebla, Mexico. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 75 (1):16-30. (distribution); Smith-Pardo, 2003Smith-Pardo, A.H. 2003. A preliminary account of the bees of Colombia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea): present knowledge and future directions. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 76 (2):335-341. (distribution); Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004Yáñez-Ordóñez, O. & I. Hinojosa-Díaz 2004. La colección himenopterológica (Insecta) del Museo de Zoología Alfonso L. Herrera de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) 20 (1):167-197. (distribution); Moreno et al., 2017Moreno Jiménez, M. S. Sánchez Soto, E. García López, J. Romero Nápoles, J.L. Knowlton, C. Phifer, D. Flaspohler & A. de J. Jiménez Méndez 2017. Diversidad y abundancia de abejas (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) en agroecosistemas de palma aceitera y pastos cultivados, en Tabasco, México. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 115:3-20. (distribution); Sagot et al., 2018Sagot, P, J. Mérida, R. Ayala & R. Vandame 2018. Situación actual del conocimiento de la fauna de abejas (Apoidea: Anthophila) del estado de Chiapas, México. In: (Ed.). Memorias X Congreso Mesoamericano sobre Abejas Nativas. 191-2011. (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).
Halictus zophodes Vachal, 1911:16, Rasmussen, 2012Rasmussen, C. 2012. Joseph Vachal (1838–1911): French entomologist and politician. Zootaxa 3442:1-52.:49, 9♀ (MNHN; ZMHB). - Engel, 2000Engel, M.S. 2000. Classification of the bee tribe Augochlorini (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 250:1-89.:79 ( listed as synonym of Augochlora nigrocyanea Cockerell, 1897); Rasmussen, 2012Rasmussen, C. 2012. Joseph Vachal (1838–1911): French entomologist and politician. Zootaxa 3442:1-52.:49 ( listed as synonym of Augochlora nigrocyanea Cockerell, 1897). - As Augochlora zophodes: - Cockerell, 1918Cockerell, T.D.A. 1918. Descriptions and records of bees. - LXXXI. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 9: v. 2 (11):418-425. (distribution).
Augochlora cyanaspis Cockerell, 1931:552, ♀. Holotype ♀, Yucatan: Chichenitza (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, leg. Bequaert). Synonymized with Augochlora nigrocyanea Cockerell, 1897 by Michener, 1954Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176.:66. - Cockerell, 1932Cockerell, T.D.A. 1932. Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) collected at Chichen Itzá, Yucatan, by the Harvard expeditions of 1929-1930. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 27:9-17. (distribution); Engel, 2000Engel, M.S. 2000. Classification of the bee tribe Augochlorini (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 250:1-89.:79 ( listed as synonym of Augochlora nigrocyanea Cockerell, 1897).
Augochlora essequibensis Cockerell, 1923:445, ♀. 3 ♀♀, Suddie, Essequibo, March 1918 (leg. G.E. Bodkin). Synonymized with Augochlora nigrocyanea Cockerell, 1897 by Engel, 2000Engel, M.S. 2000. Classification of the bee tribe Augochlorini (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 250:1-89.:79.