- As Ceropales elegans elegans: - Townes, 1957Townes, H. 1957. Nearctic wasps of the subfamilies Pepsinae and Ceropalinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 209:1-286. (distribution), 257 (listed); 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); Móczár, 1990Móczár, L. 1990. Revision of the subgenus Bifidoceropales Priesner of the Genus Ceropales Latreille (Hymenoptera: Ceropalidae). Acta zool. Hungarica 36:59-85. (distribution); Evans, 1997Evans, H.E. 1997. Spider wasps of Colorado (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae): An annotated checklist. The Great Basin Naturalist 57 (3):189-197. (distribution).
Ceropales Cressoni Fox, 1892:58, ♂♀. 1 ♀, Nebraska; 6 ♂♂, Washington; Townes, 1957Townes, H. 1957. Nearctic wasps of the subfamilies Pepsinae and Ceropalinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 209:1-286.:257, Lectotype ♀ (Philadelphia). - Fox, 1892Fox, W. 1892. The North American species of Ceropales, with a catalogue of the described species of the world. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 19:49-63.:50 (key female, key male); Dalla Torre, 1895Dalla Torre, K.W.von 1895. Ueber die Gattung Ceropales. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 14 (III):90-92.:90 (listed); Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.:341 (listed); Dreisbach, 1948Dreisbach, R.R. 1948. The description of a new species of the genus Ceropales (Hymenoptera: Psammocharidae) with a key to the species of North America. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 56:233-238.:235 (key to the species of North America), 236 (key to the species of North America); Townes, 1957Townes, H. 1957. Nearctic wasps of the subfamilies Pepsinae and Ceropalinae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 209:1-286.:257 ( listed as synonym of Ceropales elegans elegans Cresson, 1872); 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.:1569 ( listed as synonym of Ceropales elegans elegans Cresson, 1872); Móczár, 1990Móczár, L. 1990. Revision of the subgenus Bifidoceropales Priesner of the Genus Ceropales Latreille (Hymenoptera: Ceropalidae). Acta zool. Hungarica 36:59-85.:73 ( listed as synonym of Ceropales elegans elegans Cresson, 1872). - As Ceropales cressonii: - Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution), 341 (listed).