Scelio ernstii Riley, 1885:22, Lectotype ♀ (USNM, 71497), designated by Muesebeck, 1972Muesebeck, C.F.W. 1972. Nearctic species of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) that parasitize the eggs of grasshoppers. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 122:1-33.:7. - Muesebeck, 1972Muesebeck, C.F.W. 1972. Nearctic species of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) that parasitize the eggs of grasshoppers. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 122:1-33. (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), 1152 (listed).
Scelio fuscipennis Ashmead, 1887:119, ♀.Florida; Ashmead, 1893Ashmead, W.H. 1893. A monograph of the North American Proctotrypidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 45:1-472.:243, Types (Coll. Ashmead); Masner & Muesebeck, 1968Masner, L. & C.F.W. Muesebeck 1968. The Types of Proctotrupoidea (Hymenoptera) in the United States National Museum. 270:1-143.:44, Lectotype ♀ (USNM, no. 24544). - Ashmead, 1893Ashmead, W.H. 1893. A monograph of the North American Proctotrypidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 45:1-472. (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); Muesebeck, 1972Muesebeck, C.F.W. 1972. Nearctic species of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) that parasitize the eggs of grasshoppers. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 122:1-33.:7 ( listed as synonym of Scelio ernstii Riley, 1885); 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.:1152 ( listed as synonym of Scelio ernstii Riley, 1885).
Scelio venezuelensis Marshall, 1892:74, ♀. ♀, Caracas (leg. M.E. Simon). Synonymized with Scelio ernstii Riley, 1885 by Muesebeck, 1972Muesebeck, C.F.W. 1972. Nearctic species of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) that parasitize the eggs of grasshoppers. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 122:1-33.:7. - Dalla Torre, 1898Dalla Torre, C.G. 1898. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, V. Chalcididae et Proctotrupidae. Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, VII + 598. (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.:1152 ( listed as synonym of Scelio ernstii Riley, 1885).