Melissodes tristis Cockerell, 1894:234, ♂. 2 ♂♂, Las Cruces, N. Mex, Aug. 21, 1893; 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.:477, Holotype ♂ (Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). - Cockerell, 1899Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Notes on american bees (Concluded from p. 129). The Entomologist 32:154-159. (distribution); 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, 1902Cockerell, T.D.A. 1902. Additions to the fauna of Mexico (Bees and Coccidae). The Entomologist 35 (470):177-178. (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); Cockerell, 1923Cockerell, T.D.A. 1923. Some bees from Victoria, Mexico. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 63 (Art. 8):1-5. (distribution); Cockerell, 1937Cockerell, T.D.A. 1937. Bees collected by Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Sperry and Mr. R. H. Andrews in Arizona. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 36 (3):107-110. (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); 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); Vergara & Ayala, 2002Vergara, C.H. & R. Ayala 2002. Diversity, Phenology and Biogeography of the bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Zapotitlán de las Salinas, Puebla, Mexico. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 75 (1):16-30. (distribution); Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376. (distribution); Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004Yáñez-Ordóñez, O. & I. Hinojosa-Díaz 2004. La colección himenopterológica (Insecta) del Museo de Zoología Alfonso L. Herrera de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) 20 (1):167-197. (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).
Melissodes pallidicincta Cockerell, 1896:306, ♀. 10 ♀♀, West Fork of Gila River, New Mexico, July 12th and 16th (leg. C.H.T. Townsend); ♀, Santa Fé, N. M., June (leg. Ckll.); ♀, Watrous, N. M., July 13th (leg. Ckll.); 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.:477, Lectotype ♀ (U. S. National Museum, Washington, No. 3357). - 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, 1904Cockerell, T.D.A. 1904. Some bees from San Miguel County, New Mexico. The Entomologist 37 (488):5-9. (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 Florissant, Colorado. Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. 22:419-455. (distribution); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314. (distribution); Cockerell, 1907Cockerell, T.D.A. 1907. The bees of Boulder County, Colorado. University of Colorado Studies 4:239-259. (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, 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.:473 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes tristis Cockerell, 1894); 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.:2153 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes tristis Cockerell, 1894).
Melissodes tristis malvina Cockerell, 1902:177, ♂. ♂, Cerro Chilicote, State of Chihuahua, Mexico, March 22nd, 1902 (leg. C.H.T. Townsend); 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.:477, Holotype ♂ (Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, Boulder). - 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); 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.:473 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes tristis Cockerell, 1894); 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.:2153 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes tristis Cockerell, 1894).
Melissodes semitristis Cockerell, 1905:102, ♂. ♂, Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona, 6000 ft., July (leg. F.H. Snow); 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.:477, Holotype ♂ (Snow Entomological Museum of the University of Kansas, Lawrence). Synonymized with Melissodes tristis Cockerell, 1894 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.:473. - 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); 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.:2153 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes tristis Cockerell, 1894).
Melissodes pallidicincta erythrina Cockerell, 1925:231, 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.:477, Holotype ♀ (American Museum of Natural History, New York City). - 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.:473 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes tristis Cockerell, 1894); 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.:2153 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes tristis Cockerell, 1894).