Bembex pallidipicta Smith, 1873:300, ♀.Mexico. - Cameron, 1888-1900Cameron, P. 1888-1900. Biologia Centrali-Americana - Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. R. H. Porter and Dulau & Co., London. 413pp, 14 pl.:101 (listed); Handlirsch, 1893Handlirsch, A. 1893. Monographie der mit Nysson und Bembex verwandten Grabwespen. VII. (Schluss). Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien Abt. 1 1:657-942, 6 Taf. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution). - As Bembix pallidipicta: - Amarante, 2002Amarante, S.T.P. 2002. A synonymic catalog of the neotropical Crabronidae and Sphecidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Arquivos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 37:1-139. (distribution); 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).
Bembix pruinosa Fox, 1895:361 - Parker, 1917Parker, J.B. 1917. . 1-155. (distribution); Evans, 1978Evans, H.E. 1978. Observations on the nests and prey of eumenid wasps (Hymenoptera, Eumenidae). Psyche 84:255-259. (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 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209. (distribution); Amarante, 2002Amarante, S.T.P. 2002. A synonymic catalog of the neotropical Crabronidae and Sphecidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Arquivos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 37:1-139.:8 ( listed as synonym of Bembix pallidipicta Smith, 1873).