Chalcis columbiana Howard, 1885:8, ♀. Holotype ♀, District of Columbia, July 10, 1880 (Coll. C.V. Riley); Burks, 1960Burks, B.D. 1960. A revision of the genus Brachymeria Westwood in America North of Mexico (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 86 (3):225-273.:267, Type ♀ (U.S.N.M., no. 2625). - Howard, 1885Howard, L.O. 1885. Descriptions of North American Chalcididae from the collections of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and of Dr. C. V. Riley. Bulletin of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 5:3-47. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1898Dalla Torre, C.G. 1898. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, V. Chalcididae et Proctotrupidae. Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, VII + 598. (distribution). - As Brachymeria columbiana: - Burks, 1958Burks, B.D. 1958. Superfamily Chalcidoidea. 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. 62-84. (distribution); Burks, 1960Burks, B.D. 1960. A revision of the genus Brachymeria Westwood in America North of Mexico (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 86 (3):225-273. (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. (distribution).
Chalcis louisiana Girault, 1917:6, ♀. Type ♀, New Orleans, La. (U. S. National Museum, No. 20087, leg. J.R. Horton). Synonymized with Brachymeria columbiana (Howard, 1885) by Burks, 1960Burks, B.D. 1960. A revision of the genus Brachymeria Westwood in America North of Mexico (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 86 (3):225-273.:266. - 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.:874 ( listed as synonym of Brachymeria columbiana (Howard, 1885)).