Melissodes denticulata Smith, 1854:311, ♂. ♂, United States (B.M.); LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:514, Holotype ♂ (British Museum (Natural History), No. 17 B 833). - 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); LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663. (distribution); 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 et al., 1999Pascarella, J.B., Waddington, K.D. & Neal, P.R. 1999. The Bee Fauna (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Everglades National Park, Florida and adjacent areas: Distribution, Phenology, and Biogeography. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 72 (1):32-45. (distribution); Pascarella, 2006Pascarella, J.B. 2006. The bees of Florida. . (distribution); Owens et al., 2018Owens, B.E., L. Allain, E.C. van Gorder, J.L. Bossart & C.E. Carlton 2018. The bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Louisiana: An updated, annotated checklist. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 120 (2):272-307. (distribution). - As Eucera denticulata: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643.:230 (comb. nov.).
Melissodes senilis Smith, 1854:311, ♀. ♀, North America (Mount Pleasant, Ohio); LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:515, Holotype ♀ (British Museum (Natural History), No. 17 A 2618). - 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), 601 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes denticulata Smith, 1854); LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:511 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes denticulata Smith, 1854); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:288 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes denticulata Smith, 1854); 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.:2146 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes denticulata Smith, 1854).
Melissodes perplexa Cresson, 1878:206, ♂♀.Texas (American Entomology Society, leg. Belfrage);Georgia (American Entomology Society, leg. Morrison), Lectoallotype ♂ (Illniois Natural History Survey, Urbana), designated by LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:515, Lectotype ♀ (Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), designated by LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:515. Synonymized with Melissodes denticulata Smith, 1854 by LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:511. - 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, 1899Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. The bees of Kansas. Entomological News 10 (1):3-4. (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); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:277 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes fimbriata Cresson, 1878), 288 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes denticulata Smith, 1854); 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.:2146 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes denticulata Smith, 1854). - As Eucera perplexa: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution), 243 (comb. nov.).
Melissodes vernoniana Robertson, 1905:368 - 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.:454 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes perplexa Cresson, 1878); LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:511 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes denticulata Smith, 1854); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:288 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes denticulata Smith, 1854); 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.:2146 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes denticulata Smith, 1854).