Halictus pubescens Friese, 1916:290, 304, ♀. 6 ♀♀, San José (leg. Schmidt); Smith-Pardo, 2005Smith-Pardo, A.H. 2005. The bees of the genus Neocorynura of Mexico (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Augochlorini). Folia Entomologica Mexicana 44 (2):165-193.:187, Lectotype ♀ (ZMHB). - Friese, 1921Friese, H. 1921. Nachtrag zur Bienenfauna von Costa Rica. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 82:74-98. (distribution); Cockerell, 1921Cockerell, T.D.A. 1921. Descriptions and records of bees. - XCI. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 9: v. 8 (45):359-368. (distribution). - As Neocorynura pubescens: - Michener, 1954Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176. (distribution); Maes, 1993Maes, J.-M. 1993. Catalogo de los Apoidea (Hymenoptera) de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 26:11-30. (distribution); Smith-Pardo, 2003Smith-Pardo, A.H. 2003. A preliminary account of the bees of Colombia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea): present knowledge and future directions. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 76 (2):335-341. (distribution); Smith-Pardo, 2005Smith-Pardo, A.H. 2005. The bees of the genus Neocorynura of Mexico (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Augochlorini). Folia Entomologica Mexicana 44 (2):165-193. (distribution); Brosi et al., 2006Brosi, B.J., A. Smith-Pardo & V.H. Gonzalez 2006. A new wood-nesting Neocorynura (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Augochlorini) from Costa Rica, with notes on its biology. Zootaxa 1189:55-68. (distribution); Sagot et al., 2018Sagot, P, J. Mérida, R. Ayala & R. Vandame 2018. Situación actual del conocimiento de la fauna de abejas (Apoidea: Anthophila) del estado de Chiapas, México. In: (Ed.). Memorias X Congreso Mesoamericano sobre Abejas Nativas. 191-2011. (distribution).
Corynura viridithoracica Friese, 1916:293, 317, ♂. 3 ♂♂, San José (leg. Schmidt). Synonymized with Neocorynura pubescens (Friese, 1916) by Michener, 1954Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176.:79. - As Halictus viridithoracica: - Smith-Pardo, 2005Smith-Pardo, A.H. 2005. The bees of the genus Neocorynura of Mexico (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Augochlorini). Folia Entomologica Mexicana 44 (2):165-193.:185 ( listed as synonym of Neocorynura pubescens (Friese, 1916)).