Ceratina arizonensis Cockerell, 1898:238 - Cockerell & Porter, 1899Cockerell, T.D.A. & W. Porter 1899. Contributions from the New Mexico Biological Station. - VII Observations on bees, with descriptions of new genera and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 7 (4):403-421. (distribution); Cockerell, 1903Cockerell, T.D.A. 1903. A catalogue of the bees of California. Psyche 10:74-78. (distribution); Cockerell, 1941Cockerell, T.D.A. 1941. Observations on plants and insects in northwestern Baja California, Mexico, with descriptions of new bees. Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 9 (31):337-352. (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); 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).
Ceratina arizonensis vanduzeei Cockerell, 1924:543, ♀. Holotype ♀, Guaymas, Sonora, April 10 (Mus. Calif. Acad. Sci., No. 1507, leg. Van Duzee). - 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.:2177 ( listed as synonym of Ceratina arizonensis Cockerell, 1898).