Mutilla indica Linnaeus, 1758:583, sex not indicated.Indiis; Mickel, 1952Mickel, C.E. 1952. The Mutillidae (Wasps) of British Guiana. Zoologica (New York) 37 (3):105-150.:128, Holotype ♀, India, Linnaeus erroneously cited the locality as India (Natural History Museum, Stockholm); Bartholomay, 2014Bartholomay, P.R. 2014. . Dissertation , . Manaus, Amazonas.:56, Holotype ♀ (Swedish Museum of Natural History, Estocolmo, Suécia). - Gerstäcker, 1874Gerstäcker, A. 1874. Mutillarum Americae meridionalis indigenarum synopsis systematica et synonymica. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 40 (1):41-77. (distribution). - As Traumatomutilla indica: - Mickel, 1952Mickel, C.E. 1952. The Mutillidae (Wasps) of British Guiana. Zoologica (New York) 37 (3):105-150. (distribution); Callan, 1990Callan, E.Mc C. 1990. Mutillidae of Trinidad. Sphecos 19:21-22. (distribution); Braet et al., 2000Braet, Y., J.A. Cerda & J. Fretey 2000. Note sur quelques insectes récoltés au piège Malaise en Guyane française. Notes faunique de Gembloux 38:3-20. (distribution); Bartholomay, 2014Bartholomay, P.R. 2014. . Dissertation , . Manaus, Amazonas. (distribution); Lo Cascio, 2015Lo Cascio, P. 2015. Worldwide checklist of the island mutillid wasps (Hymenoptera Mutillidae). biodiversity Journal 6 (2):529-592. (distribution); Williams et al., 2017Williams, K.A., P.R. Bartholomay & M.L. de Oliveira 2017. Species groups of Traumatomutilla André (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Insecta Mundi 0533:1-38. (distribution); Lopez, 2020Lopez, V.M. 2020. Padrões ecogeográficos da coloração em formigas-feiticeiras (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae). Dissertation , , 1-98. (distribution); 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).
Mutilla diadema Fabricius, 1793:367,Surinami (leg. Hybner). - Smith, 1855Smith, F. 1855. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III, Mutillidae and Pompilidae. :203 pp, 5 pl. (distribution); Kirby, 1884Kirby, W.F. 1884. On the Hymenoptera collected during the recent expedition of H.M.S. 'Challenger.'. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 4: v. 13:402-413. (distribution); Mickel, 1952Mickel, C.E. 1952. The Mutillidae (Wasps) of British Guiana. Zoologica (New York) 37 (3):105-150.:128 ( listed as synonym of Traumatomutilla indica (Linnaeus, 1758)); Bartholomay, 2014Bartholomay, P.R. 2014. . Dissertation , . Manaus, Amazonas.:56 ( listed as synonym of Traumatomutilla indica (Linnaeus, 1758)); 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.:82 ( listed as synonym of Traumatomutilla indica (Linnaeus, 1758)).