Anthidium illustre Cresson, 1879:206, ♀. 3 ♀♀, Nevada (leg. Morrison). - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); Cockerell, 1903Cockerell, T.D.A. 1903. A catalogue of the bees of California. Psyche 10:74-78. (distribution); Cockerell, 1915Cockerell, T.D.A. 1915. Names applied to the North American bees of the genera Lithurgus, Anthidium, and allies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47:87-94. (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). - As Callanthidium illustre: - Cockerell, 1925Cockerell, T.D.A. 1925. Anthidiinae bees in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 14:345-367. (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).
Anthidium serranum Cockerell, 1904:24 - Cockerell, 1915Cockerell, T.D.A. 1915. Names applied to the North American bees of the genera Lithurgus, Anthidium, and allies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47:87-94. (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.:1992 ( listed as synonym of Anthidium illustre Cresson, 1879).