Microgaster nephoptericis Packard, 1864:122, Whitfield et al., 2001Whitfield, J.B., S.A. Cameron, S.R. Ramírez, K. Roesch, S. Messinger, O.M. Taylor & D. Cole 2001. Review of the Apanteles Species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) attacking Lepidoptera in Bombus (Fervidobombus) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies in the New World, with description of a new species from South America. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 94 (6):851-857.:852, Holotype ♂ (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University); Fernández et al., 2020Fernández-Triana, J.L., M.R. Shaw, C. Boudreault, M. Beaudin & G.R. Broad 2020. Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). ZooKeys 920:1-1089.:177, Holotype sex unknown (MCZ). - As Apanteles nephoptericis: - 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 1. Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1-1198. (distribution); Whitfield et al., 2001Whitfield, J.B., S.A. Cameron, S.R. Ramírez, K. Roesch, S. Messinger, O.M. Taylor & D. Cole 2001. Review of the Apanteles Species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) attacking Lepidoptera in Bombus (Fervidobombus) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies in the New World, with description of a new species from South America. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 94 (6):851-857. (distribution); Fernández et al., 2020Fernández-Triana, J.L., M.R. Shaw, C. Boudreault, M. Beaudin & G.R. Broad 2020. Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). ZooKeys 920:1-1089. (distribution).
Apanteles ephestiae Baker, 1895:201, Muesebeck, 1921Muesebeck, C.F.W. 1921. A revision of the North American species of Ichneumon-flies belonging to the genus Apanteles. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58:483-576.:516, 5 Cotypes (National Collection); Whitfield et al., 2001Whitfield, J.B., S.A. Cameron, S.R. Ramírez, K. Roesch, S. Messinger, O.M. Taylor & D. Cole 2001. Review of the Apanteles Species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) attacking Lepidoptera in Bombus (Fervidobombus) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies in the New World, with description of a new species from South America. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 94 (6):851-857.:852, Holotype ♀ (U.S. National Museum, Washington, DC). - Dalla Torre, 1898Dalla Torre, C.G. 1898. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. - IV: Braconidae. Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, VIII + 323. (distribution); Muesebeck, 1921Muesebeck, C.F.W. 1921. A revision of the North American species of Ichneumon-flies belonging to the genus Apanteles. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58:483-576. (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 1. Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1-1198.:251 ( listed as synonym of Apanteles nephoptericis (Packard, 1864)); Whitfield et al., 2001Whitfield, J.B., S.A. Cameron, S.R. Ramírez, K. Roesch, S. Messinger, O.M. Taylor & D. Cole 2001. Review of the Apanteles Species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) attacking Lepidoptera in Bombus (Fervidobombus) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies in the New World, with description of a new species from South America. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 94 (6):851-857.:852 ( listed as synonym of Apanteles nephoptericis (Packard, 1864)); Fernández et al., 2020Fernández-Triana, J.L., M.R. Shaw, C. Boudreault, M. Beaudin & G.R. Broad 2020. Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). ZooKeys 920:1-1089.:177 ( listed as synonym of Apanteles nephoptericis (Packard, 1864)).