Polybia Bohemani Holmgren, 1868:441, ♀.Ins. St. Joseph; Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:69, Holotype ♀, examined (NR, Stockholm). - As Polybia occidentalis bohemani: - 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); 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 spilonota Cameron, 1904:68, xw. xw, San Marcos, Nicaragua (leg. Prof. C.F. Baker); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:69, Holotype ♀, examined (BMNH). Synonymized with Polybia occidentalis bohemani Holmgren, 1868 by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:69. - As Polybia occidentalis spilonota: - Cockerell, 1949Cockerell, T.D.A. 1949. Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 98 (No. 3233):429-490. (distribution).
Polybia parvula pseudospilonota Soika, 1965:28, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:69, Holotype ♀, examined (MNHN, Paris). Synonymized with Polybia occidentalis bohemani Holmgren, 1868 by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:69.
Polybia occidentalis invertita Soika, 1965:30, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:69, Holotype ♀, examined (MNHN, Paris). Synonymized with Polybia occidentalis bohemani Holmgren, 1868 by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:69.