Macrocera Pensylvanica Lepeletier, 1841:97, ♂. ♂, Pensylvanie (Musée de M. le général Dejean); LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:654, types have been lost or destroyed. - As Macrocera pennsylvanica: - LaBerge, 1961LaBerge, W.E. 1961. A revision of the bees of the genus Melissodes in North and Central America. Part III. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 42 (5):283-663.:654 (nomen dubium). - As Melissodes pennsylvanica: - Cresson, 1872Cresson, E.T. 1872. Hymenoptera Texana. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 4:153-292. (distribution); Robertson, 1897Robertson, C. 1897. North American bees - Descriptions and synonyms. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 7 (14):315-356. (distribution); Cockerell, 1913Cockerell, T.D.A. 1913. Names applied to the Eucerine bees of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 43:261-273. (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). - As Melissodes pensylvanica:
Melissodes dentiventris Provancher, 1888:299 - Robertson, 1897Robertson, C. 1897. North American bees - Descriptions and synonyms. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 7 (14):315-356.:355 ( listed as synonym of Melissodes pennsylvanica (Lepeletier, 1841)).