Megachile cleomis lippiae Cockerell, 1900:15, ♂♀. 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, La Cueva, Organ Mts., about 5300 feet, Sept. 3-5 (leg. C.H.T. Townsend); ♀, West Fork of Gila River, July 12-16 (leg. Townsend); ♀, Las Cruces, Sept. 7 (leg. Cockerell); Mitchell, 1935Mitchell, T.B. 1935. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part II. Morphology of the male sternites and genital armature and the taxonomy of the subgenera Litomegachile, Neomegachile and Cressoniella (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 61 (1):1-44.:38, Type ♀ (Cockerell); Bzdyk, 2012Bzdyk, E.L. 2012. A revision of the Megachile subgenus Litomegachile Mitchell with an illustrated key and description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae, Megachilini). ZooKeys 221:31-61.:46, Holotype ♀ (CAS). - Cockerell, 1900Cockerell, T.D.A. 1900. Some bees visiting the flowers of Mesquite. The Entomologist 33 (448):243-245. (distribution); Cockerell, 1903Cockerell, T.D.A. 1903. North-American bees, and a new Homopteron. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 7: v. 12:442-455. (distribution); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314. (distribution); Mitchell, 1935Mitchell, T.B. 1935. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part II. Morphology of the male sternites and genital armature and the taxonomy of the subgenera Litomegachile, Neomegachile and Cressoniella (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 61 (1):1-44. (distribution). - As Megachile lippiae: - 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); 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); 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); Bzdyk, 2012Bzdyk, E.L. 2012. A revision of the Megachile subgenus Litomegachile Mitchell with an illustrated key and description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae, Megachilini). ZooKeys 221:31-61. (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); Esperanza de Pedro, 2021Esperanza de Pedro, D. 2021. . :. (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).
Megachile schismatura Cockerell, 1908:267, ♂. Holotype ♂, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, April 25, 1895 (leg. W.P. Cockerell); Bzdyk, 2012Bzdyk, E.L. 2012. A revision of the Megachile subgenus Litomegachile Mitchell with an illustrated key and description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae, Megachilini). ZooKeys 221:31-61.:46, Lectotype ♀ (USNM). Synonymized with Megachile lippiae Cockerell, 1900 by Bzdyk, 2012Bzdyk, E.L. 2012. A revision of the Megachile subgenus Litomegachile Mitchell with an illustrated key and description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae, Megachilini). ZooKeys 221:31-61.:46. - Mitchell, 1935Mitchell, T.B. 1935. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part II. Morphology of the male sternites and genital armature and the taxonomy of the subgenera Litomegachile, Neomegachile and Cressoniella (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 61 (1):1-44.:32 ( listed as synonym of Megachile texana Cresson, 1878). - As Megachile schizmatura: - Cockerell, 1914Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Descriptions and records of bees. - LXIII. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 14:361-369. (distribution); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:118 ( listed as synonym of Megachile texana Cresson, 1878); 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.:2054 ( listed as synonym of Megachile texana Cresson, 1878).