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Coelioxys mendacina Cockerell, 1921:3, ♂♀. Holotype ♀, Falls Church, Virginia, June 2 (leg. N. Banks); Baker, 1975Baker, J.R. 1975. Taxonomy of five nearctic subgenera of Coelioxys (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 50 (12):649-730.:700, Type ♀ (American Museum of Natural History). Synonymized with Coelioxys sayi Robertson, 1897 by Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:222. - Baker, 1975Baker, J.R. 1975. Taxonomy of five nearctic subgenera of Coelioxys (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 50 (12):649-730.:700 ( listed as synonym of Coelioxys sayi Robertson, 1897); 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.:2079 ( listed as synonym of Coelioxys sayi Robertson, 1897).