Exochus melanocephalus Cameron, 1886:280, ♂. ♂, Mexico, Northern Sonora (leg. Morrison); Townes & Townes, 1959Townes, H.K. & M. Townes 1959. Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico: 1. Subfamily Metopiinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 216 (1):1-318.:126, Type ♀, 'xm' = xf (London). - Cameron, 1883-1888Cameron, P. 1883-1888. Biologia Centrali-Americana - Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Families Tenthredinidae-Chrysididae). Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 487 pp., 20 pl.:280 (listed); Dalla Torre, 1901-1902Dalla Torre, C.G. 1901-1902. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. — Volumen III: Trigonalidae, Megalyridae, Stephanidae, Ichneumonidae, Agriotypidae, Evaniidae, Pelecinidae. Pars II. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. VIII + 1141. (distribution). - As Triclistus melanocephalus: - Townes & Townes, 1959Townes, H.K. & M. Townes 1959. Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico: 1. Subfamily Metopiinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 216 (1):1-318. (distribution), 126 (comb. nov.); 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); Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2002Ruíz-Cancino, E., D.R. Kasparyan & J.M. Coronado Blanco 2002. Ichneumonidae. In: Llorente Bousquets, J. & J.J. Morrone (Ed.). Biodiversidad, taxonomía y biogeografía de artrópodos de México: Hacia una síntesis de su conocimiento, volumen III. 631-646. (distribution); Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376. (distribution); Castillo et al., 2014Castillo Flores, P.M., E. Ruíz Cancino, J.M. Coronado Blanco, A.I. Khalaim & S.N. Myartseva 2014. Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) en un bosque de Quercus de Tamaulipas, México. Dugesiana 21 (2):161-174. (distribution).
Triclistus thoracicus Ashmead, 1896:210, ♀. Holotype ♀, Dixie Landing, Va., May 27, 1894 (leg. C.L. Marlatt); Davis, 1897Davis, G.C. 1897. A review of the Ichneumonid subfamily Tryphoninae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 24 (3/4):193-348.:213, Holotype ♀ (Coll. Ashmead); Townes & Townes, 1959Townes, H.K. & M. Townes 1959. Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico: 1. Subfamily Metopiinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 216 (1):1-318.:126, Type ♀ (Washington). Synonymized with Triclistus melanocephalus (Cameron, 1886) by Townes & Townes, 1959Townes, H.K. & M. Townes 1959. Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico: 1. Subfamily Metopiinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 216 (1):1-318.:126. - Dalla Torre, 1901-1902Dalla Torre, C.G. 1901-1902. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. — Volumen III: Trigonalidae, Megalyridae, Stephanidae, Ichneumonidae, Agriotypidae, Evaniidae, Pelecinidae. Pars II. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. VIII + 1141. (distribution); Walkley, 1958Walkley, L.M. 1958. Family Ichneumonidae. In: Krombein, K.V. (Ed.). Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico - Synoptic Catalog. Washington: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph No. 2. First Supplement, 305 pp. 36-62. (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.:554 ( listed as synonym of Triclistus melanocephalus (Cameron, 1886)).