Ceratina nanula Cockerell, 1897:352 - 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, 1899Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Catálogo de las Abejas de Mexico. Biblioteca Agricola de las Secretaria de Fomento, Mexico, 1-20. (distribution); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. New Rocky Mountain bees, and other notes. The Canadian Entomologist 38 (5):160-166. (distribution); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314. (distribution); Cockerell, 1924Cockerell, T.D.A. 1924. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Gulf of California in 1921. The bees (II). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 12 (27):529-560. (distribution); Cockerell, 1930Cockerell, T.D.A. 1930. Bees from Mesa Verde, Colorado, in the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum Novitates 397:1-8. (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 nanula rigdenae Michener, 1936:3 - 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.:2180 ( listed as synonym of Ceratina nanula Cockerell, 1897).