Pseudagenia esmeralda Banks, 1925:329, ♀. Type ♀, Barro Colorado, 23 June, 15 July 1924 (M. C. Z., 15,337). - Banks, 1925Banks, N. 1925. Psammocharidae from Panama. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 67 (9):329-338.:329 (key). - As Auplopus esmeralda: - Kimsey, 1980Kimsey, L.S. 1980. Notes on the biology of some panamanian Pompilidae, with a description of a communal nest (Hymenoptera). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 56 (2):98-100. (biology [communal nest], distribution). - As Auplopus esmeraldus: - Dreisbach, 1963Dreisbach, R.R. 1963. New species of spider wasp, genus Auplopus from the Americas South of the United States (Hymenoptera: Psammocharidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 114:137-211. (distribution), 142 (key female); Cambra et al., 2004Cambra, R.A., D.A. Quintero & R.J. Miranda 2004. Presas, comportamiento de anidación y nuevos registros de distribución en Pompílidos Neotropicales (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Tecnociencia 6 (1):95-109. (distribution); Corro & Cambra, 2011Corro, P.E. & R.A. Cambra 2011. Diversidad de avispas (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) cazadoras de arañas del Parque Nacional Darién, República de Panamá. Tecnociencia 13 (1):77-90. (distribution); Cambra et al., 2017Cambra, R.A., M.L. Tunes Buschini, D.Q. Arias, F. Brozoski & R.R. Lustosa 2017. Ephuta icema Casal, 1969 and its host Auplopus subaurarius Dreisbach, 1963 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Pompilidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 4272 (2):285-290. (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).