Aporus canescens Smith, 1873:53, ♀. ♀, Para; Ega (leg. H. W. Bates); Evans, 1973Evans, H.E. 1973. Studies on Neotropical Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) VIII. The genus Aporus Spinola in South America. Studia Entomologica 16 (fasc. 1-4):353-370.:367, Plesiallotype ♂ (Museum of Comparative Zoology); Evans, 1973Evans, H.E. 1973. Studies on Neotropical Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) VIII. The genus Aporus Spinola in South America. Studia Entomologica 16 (fasc. 1-4):353-370.:367, Plesiotype ♀ (Museum of Comparative Zoology); Evans, 1973Evans, H.E. 1973. Studies on Neotropical Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) VIII. The genus Aporus Spinola in South America. Studia Entomologica 16 (fasc. 1-4):353-370.:366, Type ♀ (British Museum, no. 19,768). - Fox, 1897Fox, W.J. 1897. Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of Brazil, No. 2. - Pompilidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 49:229-283.:263 (comb. nov.); Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.:278 (listed); Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157. (distribution), 101 (listed), 102 (description female, description male); Banks, 1947Banks, N. 1947. Studies of South American Psammocharidae. Part 2. Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Bulletin 99:371-486. (distribution), 447 (listed); Evans, 1973Evans, H.E. 1973. Studies on Neotropical Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) VIII. The genus Aporus Spinola in South America. Studia Entomologica 16 (fasc. 1-4):353-370. (distribution); Braet et al., 2000Braet, Y., J.A. Cerda & J. Fretey 2000. Note sur quelques insectes récoltés au piège Malaise en Guyane française. Notes faunique de Gembloux 38:3-20. (distribution); Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009Rasmussen, C. & A. Asenjo 2009. A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 15:1-78. (distribution); Castro-Huertas et al., 2014Castro-Huertas, V., J.P. Pitts, J. Rodriguez, C. Waichert & F. Fernández 2014. New records of spider wasps (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) from Colombia. ZooKeys 443:35-44. (distribution); Santos et al., 2015Santos, E.F. dos, Y.C Grandinete & F.B. Noll 2015. Additions to the checklist of Scoliidae, Sphecidae, Pompilidae and Vespidae of Peru, with notes on the endemic status of some species (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 519:33-48. (distribution); Fernández et al., 2017Fernández, F., V. Castro, J. Rodríguez, C. Waichert & J.P. Pitts 2017. Avispas cazadoras de arañas de Colombia (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Proceditor Ltda., Bogotá, D. C., Colombia. (distribution); Fernández et al., 2022Fernández, F., J. Rodriguez, C. Waichert, B. Decker & J. Pitts 2022. Twenty two years later: An updated checklist of Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Zootaxa 5116 (4):451-503. (distribution). - As Planiceps canescens: - Fox, 1897Fox, W.J. 1897. Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of Brazil, No. 2. - Pompilidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 49:229-283. (distribution), 263 (listed), 264 (key [key to Brazilian species]). - As Pompilus canescens: - Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution), 278 (comb. nov.); Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157.:101 (listed).
Aporus minutus Smith, 1873:53, ♂. ♂, Para (leg. H. W. Bates); Evans, 1973Evans, H.E. 1973. Studies on Neotropical Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) VIII. The genus Aporus Spinola in South America. Studia Entomologica 16 (fasc. 1-4):353-370.:366, Type ♂ (British Museum, no. 19,769). Synonymized with Aporus canescens Smith, 1873 by Evans, 1973Evans, H.E. 1973. Studies on Neotropical Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) VIII. The genus Aporus Spinola in South America. Studia Entomologica 16 (fasc. 1-4):353-370.:365. - Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157.:139 (description male, listed). - As Pompilus minutus: - Fox, 1897Fox, W.J. 1897. Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of Brazil, No. 2. - Pompilidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 49:229-283. (distribution), 259 (listed).
Pompilus minutissimus Dalla Torre, 1897:302, no descr. Replacement name for Aporus minutus Smith, 1873 by Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.:302 (nec Dahlbom). - Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution), 302 (comb. nov.); Bradley, 1944Bradley, J.C. 1944. A preliminary revision of the Pompilinae (exclusive of the tribe Pompilini) of the Americas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 70:23-157.:139 ( listed as synonym of Aporus minutus Smith, 1873); Evans, 1973Evans, H.E. 1973. Studies on Neotropical Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) VIII. The genus Aporus Spinola in South America. Studia Entomologica 16 (fasc. 1-4):353-370.:365 ( listed as synonym of Aporus canescens Smith, 1873).