Melissodes carolinensis Dalla Torre - Michener, 1947Michener, C.D. 1947. Bees of a limited area in southern Mississippi (Hymenoptera; Apoidea). The American Midland Naturalist 38 (2):443-455. (distribution).
Melissodes atrifrons sensu Cockerell, 1906:79 - Cockerell, 1913Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Names applied to the Eucerine bees of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 43:261-273. (distribution); LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194.:949 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes atripes atrimitra LaBerge, 1956); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:259 ( listed as synonym of Svastra atripes atrimitra (LaBerge, 1956)).
Melissodes carolinensis Brimley, 1938:462 - LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194.:949 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes atripes atrimitra LaBerge, 1956); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:259 ( listed as synonym of Svastra atripes atrimitra (LaBerge, 1956)).
Melissodes atripes atrimitra LaBerge, 1956:949, ♂♀. Holotype ♂, Allotype ♀, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, August 6, 1944 (Snow Entomological Museum at the University of Kansas, leg. C.D. Michener). - LaBerge, 1956LaBerge, W.E. 1956. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part I. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37 (2):911-1194. (distribution). - As Svastra atripes atrimitra: - LaBerge, 1958LaBerge, W.E. 1958. Notes on the North and Central America bees of the genus Svastra Holmberg (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 31 (4):266-273.:273 (comb. nov.); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557. (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); Pascarella, 2006Pascarella, J.B. 2006. The bees of Florida. . (distribution).