Melissodes afflicta Cresson, 1878:217, ♂♀. 7 ♂♀, Texas (American Entomology Society, leg. Belfrage, Heiligbrodt). - Cresson, 1879Cresson, E.T. 1879. Catalogue of North American Apidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 7:215-232. (distribution). - As Diadasia afflicta: - Cockerell, 1905Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Diadasia Patton; a genus of bees. American Naturalist 39 (466):741-745. (distribution); Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The North American bees of the family Anthophoridae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32 (1):63-116. (distribution); Cockerell, 1914Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Bees visiting Helianthus. The Canadian Entomologist 46 (12):409-415. (distribution); Lutz & Cockerell, 1920Lutz, F.E. & T.D.A. Cockerell 1920. Notes on the distribution and bibliography of North American bees of the families, Apidae, Meliponidae, Bombidae, Euglossidae, and Anthophoridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist 42 (15):491-641. (distribution); Cockerell, 1936Cockerell, T.D.A. 1936. Records of Western bees. American Museum Novitates 831:1-6. (distribution); Owens et al., 2018Owens, B.E., L. Allain, E.C. van Gorder, J.L. Bossart & C.E. Carlton 2018. The bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Louisiana: An updated, annotated checklist. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 120 (2):272-307. (distribution). - As Eucera afflicta: - Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution), 223 (comb. nov.).
Diadasia afflictula Cockerell, 1910:366, ♂. ♂, Mesilla, New Mexico, May 1 (leg. Cockerell). - Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022Nava-Bolaños, A. & L. Osorio-Olvera 2022. Estado del arte del conocimiento de biodiversidad de los polinizadores de México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 93:1-77. (distribution).