Sphaeropthalma cargilli Cockerell, 1895:16, ♀. Holotype ♀, Gordon Town, Jamaica (U.S. Nat. Museum, leg. Dr. Cargill); Quintero & Cambra, 2001Quintero, A.D. & R.A. Cambra 2001. On the identity of Scaptopoda F. Lynch Arribálzaga, new taxonomic changes and new distribution records for neotropical Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with notes on their biology. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 127 (3):291-304.:294, Type (USNM, #2592). - Ashmead, 1900Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Report upon the aculeate Hymenoptera of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London pt. II:207-367. (distribution). - As Dasymutilla cargilli: - Quintero & Cambra, 2001Quintero, A.D. & R.A. Cambra 2001. On the identity of Scaptopoda F. Lynch Arribálzaga, new taxonomic changes and new distribution records for neotropical Mutillidae (Hymenoptera), with notes on their biology. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 127 (3):291-304. (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). - As Mutilla cargillii: - 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 Sphaerophthalma cargilli: - Lo Cascio, 2015Lo Cascio, P. 2015. Worldwide checklist of the island mutillid wasps (Hymenoptera Mutillidae). biodiversity Journal 6 (2):529-592. (distribution). - As Sphaerophthalma cargillii: