Odynerus Bacu Saussure, 1852:154 (key), 185, ♂.L'île de Cuba (M. Guérin-Méneville); Bequaert, 1925Bequaert, J.C. 1925. The genus Ancistrocerus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) in North America, with a partial key to the species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 51 (1):57-117.:110, Type (possibly at the Paris Museum). - Guérin-Méneville, 1856Guérin-Méneville, M.F.E. 1856. Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba. Secunda Parte. Historia Natural. Tomo VII. Crustaceos, Aragnides é Insectos. Arthus Bertrand, Paris. 1-371. (distribution); Guérin-Méneville, 1857Guérin-Méneville, M.F.E. 1857. Animaux Articulés. Arthus Bertrand, Paris. 1-868. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution); Zavattari, 1912Zavattari, E. 1912. Materialien für eine Monographie der Neotropischen Eumeniden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 78:1-272. (distribution). - As Ancistrocerus bacu: - As Parancistrocerus bacu: - Fernández et al., 2001Fernández T., J.L., G. Garcés G., E. Portuondo F., P. Valdés T. & I. Expósito E. 2001. Insectos asociados con flores de malezas del Jardín Botánico de Santiago de Cuba, con énfasis en Hymenoptera. Revista de Biología Tropical (International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation) 49 (3-4):1013-1026. (distribution); Portuondo Ferrer & Fernández Triana, 2004Portuondo Ferrer, E. & J.L. Fernández Triana 2004. Biodiversidad del orden Hymenoptera en los macizos montañosos de Cuba oriental. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 35:121-136. (distribution); Genaro, 2004Genaro, J.A. 2004. Dos especies nuevas de euméninos de los generos Euodynerus y Parancistrocerus para Cuba (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Solenodon 4:67-72. (distribution); Fong et al., 2005 2005. Cuba: Siboney-Juticí. Rapid Biological Inventories Report 10. The Field Museum, Chicago. 1-209. (distribution); Carpenter & Genaro, 2011Carpenter, J.M. & Genaro, J.A. 2011. Vespidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Puerto Rico, West Indies. Insecta Mundi 202:1-35. (distribution); Medina, 2016Medina Rosa, J.R. 2016. Avispas de Puerto Rico - Hymenoptera: Symphyta, Apocrita (Aculeata). Ediciones Digitales, 1-23. (distribution). - As Stenodynerus bacu: - Alayo, 1973Alayo, P.D. 1973. Catálogo de los Himenopteros de Cuba. Instituto Cubano del libro, La Habana. 1-218. (distribution); Fernández Triana et al., 2002Fernández Triana, J.L., H. Saríol, M.A. Vega Castillo, S. Ricardo & M. González 2002. Datos preliminares sobre la biodiversidad del orden Hymenoptera en la provincia Granma, Cuba. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 31:43-48. (distribution).
Odynerus bacuensis Saussure, 1855:232 - Smith, 1857Smith, F. 1857. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London. 147 pp. (distribution); Cresson, 1865Cresson, E.T. 1865. On the Hymenoptera of Cuba. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 4:200 pp. (distribution); Fox, 1891Fox, W.J. 1891. On a collection of Hymenoptera made in Jamaica during April, 1891. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 18:337-348. (distribution); 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); Zavattari, 1912Zavattari, E. 1912. Materialien für eine Monographie der Neotropischen Eumeniden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 78:1-272.:246 ( listed as synonym of Odynerus bacu Saussure, 1852); Bequaert, 1925Bequaert, J.C. 1925. The genus Ancistrocerus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) in North America, with a partial key to the species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 51 (1):57-117.:110 ( listed as synonym of Odynerus bacu Saussure, 1852); Alayo, 1973Alayo, P.D. 1973. Catálogo de los Himenopteros de Cuba. Instituto Cubano del libro, La Habana. 1-218.:163 ( listed as synonym of Stenodynerus bacu (Saussure, 1852)). - As Odynerus bucuensis: - Gundlach, 1887Gundlach, J. 1887. Apuntes para la fauna Puerto-Riqueña. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 16 (1):115-199. (distribution); Bequaert, 1925Bequaert, J.C. 1925. The genus Ancistrocerus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) in North America, with a partial key to the species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 51 (1):57-117.:110 (lapsus calami); Wolcott, 1948Wolcott, G.N. 1948. The insects of Puerto Rico. The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 32 (4):749-975. (distribution).
Ancistrocerus variornatus Cameron, 1906:283, ♂.Habana (leg. Prof. Baker); Bequaert, 1925Bequaert, J.C. 1925. The genus Ancistrocerus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) in North America, with a partial key to the species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 51 (1):57-117.:116, Type (Pomona College). Synonymized with Ancistrocerus bacu (Saussure, 1852) by Bequaert, 1928Bequaert, J.C. 1928. A study of certain types of diplopterous wasps in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 10: v. 2 (7):138-176.:172. - Alayo, 1973Alayo, P.D. 1973. Catálogo de los Himenopteros de Cuba. Instituto Cubano del libro, La Habana. 1-218.:163 ( listed as synonym of Stenodynerus bacu (Saussure, 1852)).