Polistes ignobilis Haliday, 1836:322, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:106, Holotype ♀, examined (BMNH). - As Polybia ignobilis: - Bequaert, 1943Bequaert, J.C. 1943. On the so-called Mischocyttraus ater, Polybia atra, and their relatives (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 36 (4):717-729. (distribution); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (distribution); Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009Rasmussen, C. & A. Asenjo 2009. A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 15:1-78. (distribution); Silvestre et al., 2014Silvestre, R., M.F. Demétrio, B.M. Trad, F. Varussa & O. Lima 2014. Diversity and distribution of Hymenoptera Aculeata in Midwestern Brazilian dry forests. In: Greer, F.E. (Ed.). Dry Forests. 29-80. (distribution); Halmenschlager et al., 2019Halmenschlager, M.Y., J.C. Agudelo Martínez & N.F. Pérez-Buitrago 2019. New records of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) for the Colombian Orinoco Region. Biota Colombiana 20 (1):21-33. (distribution); Valverde et al., 2019Valverde, P., P. Hanson & J. Carpenter 2019. Keys to the Costa Rican species of paper wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae). Revista de Biología Tropical (International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation) 67 (2):174-199. (distribution).
Polybia socialis Saussure, 1854:pl. 24, fig. 5:pl. 24, fig. 5, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:106, Type-series ♀, examined (MNHN, Paris). - Bequaert, 1943Bequaert, J.C. 1943. On the so-called Mischocyttraus ater, Polybia atra, and their relatives (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 36 (4):717-729.:723 ( listed as synonym of Polybia ignobilis (Haliday, 1836)); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:106 ( listed as synonym of Polybia ignobilis (Haliday, 1836)).
Polybia atra Saussure, 1854:181 - Bequaert, 1943Bequaert, J.C. 1943. On the so-called Mischocyttraus ater, Polybia atra, and their relatives (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 36 (4):717-729.:723 ( listed as synonym of Polybia ignobilis (Haliday, 1836)).
Polybia nigra Saussure, 1858:in corrected explanation of pl. XXIV, for fig. 1 - Bequaert, 1943Bequaert, J.C. 1943. On the so-called Mischocyttraus ater, Polybia atra, and their relatives (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 36 (4):717-729.:723 ( listed as synonym of Polybia ignobilis (Haliday, 1836)).