Megachile cochisiana Mitchell, 1934:313, ♂. Holotype ♂, Hereford, Cochise County, Arizona (U.S.N.M., no. 40570, leg. W.M. Mann); Mitchell, 1936Mitchell, T.B. 1936. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part IV. Taxonomy of subgenera Xanthosarus, Phaenosarus, Megachiloides and Derotropis (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 62 (2):117-166.:123, Type ♂ (U.S.N.M., no. 40570); Raw, 2007Raw, A. 2007. An annotated catalogue of the leafcutter and mason bees (genus Megachile) of the Neotropics. Zootaxa 1601:1-127.:101, Type ♂ (USNM, 40570). - Mitchell, 1936Mitchell, T.B. 1936. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part IV. Taxonomy of subgenera Xanthosarus, Phaenosarus, Megachiloides and Derotropis (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 62 (2):117-166. (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); Raw, 2007Raw, A. 2007. An annotated catalogue of the leafcutter and mason bees (genus Megachile) of the Neotropics. Zootaxa 1601:1-127. (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 pallidiana Mitchell, 1934:314, ♀. Holotype ♀, Albuquerque, New Mexico, August, 1894 (Cornell University, leg. Snow); Mitchell, 1936Mitchell, T.B. 1936. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part IV. Taxonomy of subgenera Xanthosarus, Phaenosarus, Megachiloides and Derotropis (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 62 (2):117-166.:135, Type ♀ (Cornell Univ., no. 1109); Raw, 2007Raw, A. 2007. An annotated catalogue of the leafcutter and mason bees (genus Megachile) of the Neotropics. Zootaxa 1601:1-127.:101, Type ♀ (Cornell). - 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.:2067 ( listed as synonym of Megachile cochisiana Mitchell, 1934).