Melissodes gilensis Cockerell, 1896:306, ♂♀. 6 ♀♀, 1 ♂, West Fork of Gila River, New Mexico, July 12th, 16th, and 17th (leg. C.H.T. Townsend); 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.:269, Type (U.S.N.M., No. 3358); 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.:1149, Lectotype ♀, West Fork of the Gila River, New Mexico, August (University of Colorado Museum, leg. C.H.T. Townsend); 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.:1149, Topotype ♀ (Snow Entomological Museum at the University of Kansas). - Cockerell, 1901Cockerell, T.D.A. 1901. Contributions from the New Mexico Biological Station. - X. Observations on bees collected at Las Vegas, New Mexico, and in the adjacent Mountains. II. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 7: v. 7:125-131. (distribution); Cockerell, 1901Cockerell, T.D.A. 1901. Flower and insect records from New Mexico. Entomological News 12 (2):38-43. (distribution); Cockerell, 1905Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. The bees of southern California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 4 (6/7):99-106. (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, 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); 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); 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). - As Melissodes gilensis gilensis:
Melissodes epicharina Cockerell, 1905:99, ♀. ♀, Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona, 6000 ft. (leg. F.H. Snow); 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.:1149, Holotype ♀ (Snow Entomological Museum). Synonymized with Melissodes gilensis gilensis Cockerell, 1896 by 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.:1147. - 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).