Chrysis severa Mocsáry, 1889:573, Kimsey, 2006Kimsey, L.S. 2006. California Cuckoo Wasps in the Family Chrysididae (Hymenoptera). University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. 1-311.:247, Holotype ♀ (GENEVA). - Dalla Torre, 1892Dalla Torre, C.G. 1892. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VI: Chrysididae (Tubulifera). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-118. (distribution); Bischoff, 1913Bischoff, H. 1913. Hymenoptera. Fam.Chrysididae. In: Wytsman (Ed.). Genera Insectorum. 1-86. (distribution); Kimsey, 2006Kimsey, L.S. 2006. California Cuckoo Wasps in the Family Chrysididae (Hymenoptera). University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. 1-311. (distribution).
Chrysis praestans du Buysson, 1898:144, Kimsey, 2006Kimsey, L.S. 2006. California Cuckoo Wasps in the Family Chrysididae (Hymenoptera). University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. 1-311.:247, Holotype ♀, (locality in error? Poss. Grenada, Mississippi (MNHN). - 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); Kimsey, 2006Kimsey, L.S. 2006. California Cuckoo Wasps in the Family Chrysididae (Hymenoptera). University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London. 1-311.:247 ( listed as synonym of Chrysis severa Mocsáry, 1889).