Mutilla rufofemorata Cameron, 1894:264, ♀. ♀, Mexico, Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet (leg. H.H. Smith); Mickel, 1938Mickel, C.E. 1938. The Neotropical mutilid wasps of the genus Timulla Ashmead (Hymenoptera:Mutillidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 87 (22):529-680.:668, Type ♀ (British Museum (Natural History), London). - Cameron, 1888-1900Cameron, P. 1888-1900. Biologia Centrali-Americana - Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. R. H. Porter and Dulau & Co., London. 413pp, 14 pl.:264 (listed); Mickel, 1938Mickel, C.E. 1938. The Neotropical mutilid wasps of the genus Timulla Ashmead (Hymenoptera:Mutillidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 87 (22):529-680.:668 ( listed as synonym of Timulla falsa (Dalla Torre, 1897)); 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.:265 ( listed as synonym of Timulla falsa (Dalla Torre, 1897)).
Mutilla falsa Dalla Torre, 1897:39, no descr. Replacement name for Mutilla rufofemorata Cameron, 1894 by Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.:39 (nec Smith). - Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution). - As Timulla falsa: - 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).