Sphaerophthalma areta Cameron, 1895:332, ♀. ♀, Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (leg. Champion); Quintero & Cambra, 1994Quintero, A.D. & R.A. Cambra 1994. Systematics of Pseudomethoca areta (Cameron): sex association, description of the male and a gynandromorph, and a new synonymy (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 3:303-308.:304, Holotype (BM(NH), London, 15.822). - Cameron, 1888-1900Cameron, P. 1888-1900. Biologia Centrali-Americana - Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. R. H. Porter and Dulau & Co., London. 413pp, 14 pl.:332 (listed).Sphaerophthalma areta Cameron, 1895:332, ♀. ♀, Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (leg. Champion); Quintero & Cambra, 1994Quintero, A.D. & R.A. Cambra 1994. Systematics of Pseudomethoca areta (Cameron): sex association, description of the male and a gynandromorph, and a new synonymy (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 3:303-308.:304, Holotype (BM(NH), London, 15.822). - Cameron, 1888-1900Cameron, P. 1888-1900. Biologia Centrali-Americana - Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. R. H. Porter and Dulau & Co., London. 413pp, 14 pl.:332 (listed). - As Mutilla areta: - Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution), 10 (comb. nov.). - As Pseudomethoca areta: - Pagliano et al., 2020Pagliano G., D.J. Brothers, R. Cambra, A.S. Lelej, P. Lo Cascio, M.M. Palmerini, P.L. Scaramozzino, K.A. Williams & M. Romano 2020. Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bolletino del Museo Regionale di Scienze naturali Torino 36 (1-2):5-425. (distribution). - As Sphaeropthalma areta:
Sphaerophthalma panamensis Cameron, 1895:334, ♀. ♀, Panama, Bugaba (leg. Champion); Quintero & Cambra, 1994Quintero, A.D. & R.A. Cambra 1994. Systematics of Pseudomethoca areta (Cameron): sex association, description of the male and a gynandromorph, and a new synonymy (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 3:303-308.:304, Holotype (BM(NH), London, 15.833). Synonymized with Pseudomethoca areta (Cameron, 1895) by Quintero & Cambra, 1994Quintero, A.D. & R.A. Cambra 1994. Systematics of Pseudomethoca areta (Cameron): sex association, description of the male and a gynandromorph, and a new synonymy (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 3:303-308.:304. - Cameron, 1888-1900Cameron, P. 1888-1900. Biologia Centrali-Americana - Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. R. H. Porter and Dulau & Co., London. 413pp, 14 pl.:334 (listed); Pagliano et al., 2020Pagliano G., D.J. Brothers, R. Cambra, A.S. Lelej, P. Lo Cascio, M.M. Palmerini, P.L. Scaramozzino, K.A. Williams & M. Romano 2020. Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bolletino del Museo Regionale di Scienze naturali Torino 36 (1-2):5-425.:107 ( listed as synonym of Pseudomethoca areta (Cameron, 1895)).Sphaerophthalma panamensis Cameron, 1895:334, ♀. ♀, Panama, Bugaba (leg. Champion); Quintero & Cambra, 1994Quintero, A.D. & R.A. Cambra 1994. Systematics of Pseudomethoca areta (Cameron): sex association, description of the male and a gynandromorph, and a new synonymy (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 3:303-308.:304, Holotype (BM(NH), London, 15.833). Synonymized with Pseudomethoca areta (Cameron, 1895) by Quintero & Cambra, 1994Quintero, A.D. & R.A. Cambra 1994. Systematics of Pseudomethoca areta (Cameron): sex association, description of the male and a gynandromorph, and a new synonymy (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 3:303-308.:304. - Cameron, 1888-1900Cameron, P. 1888-1900. Biologia Centrali-Americana - Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. R. H. Porter and Dulau & Co., London. 413pp, 14 pl.:334 (listed); Pagliano et al., 2020Pagliano G., D.J. Brothers, R. Cambra, A.S. Lelej, P. Lo Cascio, M.M. Palmerini, P.L. Scaramozzino, K.A. Williams & M. Romano 2020. Checklist of names in Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with illustrations of selected species. Bolletino del Museo Regionale di Scienze naturali Torino 36 (1-2):5-425.:107 ( listed as synonym of Pseudomethoca areta (Cameron, 1895)). - As Mutilla panamensis: - Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution), 70 (comb. nov.). - As Sphaeropthalma panamensis: