Melissodes texana Cresson, 1872:276, ♂♀. 7 ♂♀, Texas (leg. Belfrage, Boll); 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.:1000, Lectotype ♀, Lectoallotype ♂ (Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia). - Cresson, 1879Cresson, E.T. 1879. Catalogue of North American Apidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 7:215-232. (distribution); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32 (1):63-116. (distribution); 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); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641. (distribution); Michener, 1947Michener, C.D. 1947. Bees of a limited area in southern Mississippi (Hymenoptera; Apoidea). The American Midland Naturalist 38 (2):443-455. (distribution). - As Eucera texana: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution), 248 (comb. nov.). - As Melissodes texana texana: - 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 texana texana: - 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.); 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).
Melissodes texana flaveriae Cockerell, 1906:108, ♀.Roswell, New Mexico (leg. Cockerell); 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.:1000, Holotype ♀ (California Academy of Sciences). - Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314. (distribution); 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); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641. (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.:2134 ( listed as synonym of Svastra texana texana (Cresson, 1872)).