Odynerus xanthianus Saussure, 1870:103, sex not indicated.California meridionalis. - Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution). - As Odynerus xantianus: [lapsus] - 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.:1487 (lapsus). - As Odynerus xantianus: [lapsus] - 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.:1487 (lapsus). - As Stenodynerus xanthianus: - Bohart, 1944Bohart, R.M. 1944. Stenodynerus fundatus and related species in North America (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 20 (2):69-75. (distribution); Bohart, 1948Bohart, R.M. 1948. Contributions toward a knowledge of the insect fauna of Lower California. No. 9, Hymenoptera: Eumenidae. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences ser. 4: v. 24 (9):313-336. (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).