Polybia picteti Saussure, 1854:168, pl. 21, fig. 2, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:147, Holotype ♀, examined (MNHN, Paris); Santos et al., 2020Santos, J.N. dos Jr., O.T. Silveira & J.M. Carpenter 2020. Taxonomic revision of the Protopolybia picteti-emortualis species-group (Richards, 1978), with descriptions of two new species (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Zootaxa 4729:228-248.:240, Holotype ♀, examined (MNHN). - Smith, 1857Smith, F. 1857. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London. 147 pp. (distribution). - As Ischnogasteroides picteti: - As Polybia pictetii: - Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution). - As Protopolybia picteti: - West-Eberhard et al., 1995West-Eberhard, M.J., J.M. Carpenter & P.E. Hanson 1995. The vespid wasps (Vespidae). In: Hanson, P.E. & I.D. Gauld (Ed.). The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica. 561-587. (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); Santos et al., 2020Santos, J.N. dos Jr., O.T. Silveira & J.M. Carpenter 2020. Taxonomic revision of the Protopolybia picteti-emortualis species-group (Richards, 1978), with descriptions of two new species (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Zootaxa 4729:228-248. (distribution). - As Protopolybia picteti picteti: - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (distribution).