Polistes bahamensis bahamensis Bequaert & Salt, 1931:795, ♂♀xw. Allotype ♂, Bahamas. Mangrove Cay, Andros Island, August, 1904 (M. C. Z.); Holotype ♀, Bahamas. Mangrove Cay, Andros Island, May and June, 1904 (A. M. N. H., leg. W.M. Wheeler); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:519, Holotype ♀ (AMNH). - As Polistes bahamensis: - Hermann, Hermann, H.R. . The social wasps of Florida (Hymenoptera; Vespidae). :. (distribution); Starr & Sewlal, 2011Starr, C.K. & J.-A.N. Sewlal 2011. A range extension of the social wasp Polistes bahamensis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). The International Journal of Bahamian Studies 17 (2):1-2. (distribution). - As Polistes exclamans bahamensis: - Bequaert, 1940Bequaert, J.C. 1940. An introductory study of Polistes in the United States and Canada with descriptions of some new North and South American forms (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 48 (1):1-31. (distribution); Krombein, 1953Krombein, K.V. 1953. The wasps and bees of the Bimini Island Group, Bahamas, British West Indies (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). American Museum Novitates 1633:1-29. (distribution); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (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).
Polistes exclamans louisianus Bequaert, 1940:14, ♀xw. Holotype ♀, New Orleans, Louisiana (U. S. National Museum, leg. Ed. Foster); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:518, Holotype ♀ (USNM). - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:518 ( listed as synonym of Polistes exclamans exclamans Viereck, 1906); 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.:1513 ( listed as synonym of Polistes exclamans bahamensis Bequaert & Salt, 1931).