Xylocopa fimbriata Fabricius, 1804:340,America meridionali (Mus. Dom. de Sehestedt, leg. Smidt); Ackerman, 1916Ackerman, A.J. 1916. The Carpenter-Bees of the United States of the genus Xylocopa. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 24 (3):196-232.:223, location unknown. - Lepeletier, 1841Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, A. 1841. Histoire Naturelles des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Vol. 2. Paris. (distribution); Schomburgk, 1848Schomburgk, R. 1848. Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-1844. Dritter Theil. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Webre, Leipzig. (distribution); Smith, 1854Smith, F. 1854. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. London. 465 pp, 8 pl. (distribution); Smith, 1874Smith, F. 1874. Monograph of the genus Xylocopa, Latr. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London :247-302. (distribution); Cresson, 1879Cresson, E.T. 1879. Catalogue of North American Apidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences 7:215-232. (distribution); Cockerell, 1899Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Catálogo de las Abejas de Mexico. Biblioteca Agricola de las Secretaria de Fomento, Mexico, 1-20. (distribution); Friese, 1902Friese, H. 1902. Beitrag zur Apidenfauna der grossen Antillen. Zeitschrift für systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 1-2:196-201. (distribution); Cockerell, 1903Cockerell, T.D.A. 1903. A catalogue of the bees of California. Psyche 10:74-78. (distribution); Friese, 1916Friese, H. 1916. Zur Bienenfauna von Costa Rica. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 77:287-348. (distribution); Ackerman, 1916Ackerman, A.J. 1916. The Carpenter-Bees of the United States of the genus Xylocopa. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 24 (3):196-232. (distribution); Bodkin, 1918Bodkin, G.E. 1918. Notes on some British Guiana Hymenoptera (exclusive of the Formicidae). The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1917:297-321, pls. XXI-XXIII. (distribution); Viereck, 1925Viereck, H.L. 1925. The wasp-like insects or Hymenoptera, exclusive of ants, collected by the Barbados-Antigua expedition from the University of Iowa in 1918. Studies in Natural History. University of Iowa 11:1-11. (distribution); Schwarz, 1934Schwarz, H.F. 1934. The solitary bees of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. American Museum Novitates 722:1-24. (distribution); Alfken, 1935-1936Alfken, J.D. 1935-1936. Ueber eine Bienenausbeute aus Venezuela. Veröffentlichungen aus dem Übersee-Museum Bremen 1:316-320. (distribution); Cockerell, 1936Cockerell, T.D.A. 1936. Bees from British Guiana. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 44 (3):249-252. (distribution); Cockerell, 1949Cockerell, T.D.A. 1949. Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 98 (No. 3233):429-490. (distribution); Michener, 1954Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176. (distribution); Ayala, 1988Ayala, R. 1988. Abejas silvestres (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) de Chamela, Jalisco, México. Folia Entomológica Mexicana 77:395-493. (distribution); Maes, 1993Maes, J.-M. 1993. Catalogo de los Apoidea (Hymenoptera) de Nicaragua. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 26:11-30. (distribution); Ospina, 2000Ospina, M. 2000. Abejas carpinteras (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae: Xylocopini) de la región Neotropical. Biota Colombiana 1 (3):239-252. (distribution); Starr & Hook, 2003Starr, C.K. & Hook, A.W. 2003. The aculeate Hymenoptera of Trinidad, West Indies. Occasional Papers o the Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies 12:1-31. (distribution); Smith-Pardo, 2003Smith-Pardo, A.H. 2003. A preliminary account of the bees of Colombia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea): present knowledge and future directions. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 76 (2):335-341. (distribution); Gonzalez & Engel, 2004Gonzalez, V.H. & M.S. Engel 2004. The tropical Andean bee fauna (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apoidea), with examples from Colombia. entomologische Abhandlungen 62 (1):65-75. (distribution); Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004Yáñez-Ordóñez, O. & I. Hinojosa-Díaz 2004. La colección himenopterológica (Insecta) del Museo de Zoología Alfonso L. Herrera de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) 20 (1):167-197. (distribution); Gonzalez et al., 2009Gonzalez, V.H., M.M. Gonzalez & Y. Cuellar 2009. Notas biológicas y taxonómicas sobre los abejorros del maracuyá del género Xylocopa (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Xylocopini) en Colombia. Acta biol. Colomb. 14 (2):31-40. (distribution); Gonzalez et al., 2012Gonzalez, V.H., J.S. Ascher & M.S. Engel 2012. A new Stelis (Dolichostelis) from northern Colombia (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): first records for South America and a synopsis of the bee fauna from the Caribbean region of Colombia. Journal of Natural History 46 (47-48):2919-2934. (distribution); Meurgey, 2016Meurgey, F. 2016. Bee species and their associated flowers in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, La Désirade, Marie Galante, St Barthelemy and Martinique) (Hymenoptera: Anthophila: Apoidea). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 52 (4):209-232. (distribution); Sagot et al., 2018Sagot, P, J. Mérida, R. Ayala & R. Vandame 2018. Situación actual del conocimiento de la fauna de abejas (Apoidea: Anthophila) del estado de Chiapas, México. In: (Ed.). Memorias X Congreso Mesoamericano sobre Abejas Nativas. 191-2011. (distribution); Meurgey & Dumbardon-Martial, 2019Meurgey, F. & E. Dumbardon-Martial 2019. New records of bees for the French West Indies (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Anthophila). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France 124 (1):11-18. (distribution); Sánchez-Soto, 2019Sánchez-Soto, S. 2019. Xylocopa fimbriata Fabricius, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea): primer reporte para Tabasco, México. Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia 165:1-8. (distribution); Meurgey & Ramage, 2020Meurgey, F. & T. Ramage 2020. Challenging the Wallacean shortfall: A total assessment of insect diversity on Guadeloupe (French West Indies), a checklist and bibliography. Insecta Mundi 786:1-183. (distribution). - As Xylocopa fimbriata fimbriata: - Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376. (distribution).
Xylocopa corniger Westwood, 1840:270 Synonymized with Xylocopa fimbriata Fabricius, 1804 by Smith, 1874Smith, F. 1874. Monograph of the genus Xylocopa, Latr. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London :247-302.:284. - Cockerell, 1949Cockerell, T.D.A. 1949. Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 98 (No. 3233):429-490.:483 ( listed as synonym of Xylocopa fimbriata Fabricius, 1804); Meurgey, 2016Meurgey, F. 2016. Bee species and their associated flowers in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, La Désirade, Marie Galante, St Barthelemy and Martinique) (Hymenoptera: Anthophila: Apoidea). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 52 (4):209-232.:217 ( listed as synonym of Xylocopa fimbriata Fabricius, 1804).
Xylocopa Cajennæ Lepeletier, 1841:203, ♂. ♂, Cayenne (Musée de M.M. Serville et comte Dejean). - Schomburgk, 1848Schomburgk, R. 1848. Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-1844. Dritter Theil. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Webre, Leipzig. (distribution); Smith, 1854Smith, F. 1854. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. London. 465 pp, 8 pl. (distribution); Guérin-Méneville, 1857Guérin-Méneville, M.F.E. 1857. Animaux Articulés. Arthus Bertrand, Paris. 1-868. (distribution); Smith, 1874Smith, F. 1874. Monograph of the genus Xylocopa, Latr. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London :247-302.:284 ( listed as synonym of Xylocopa fimbriata Fabricius, 1804); Meurgey, 2016Meurgey, F. 2016. Bee species and their associated flowers in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, La Désirade, Marie Galante, St Barthelemy and Martinique) (Hymenoptera: Anthophila: Apoidea). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 52 (4):209-232.:217 ( listed as synonym of Xylocopa fimbriata Fabricius, 1804). - As Xylocopa cayennae: - 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).
Xylocopa virescens Lepeletier, 1841:186, ♀. ♀, Cayenne (Musée du comte Dejean). - Smith, 1854Smith, F. 1854. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Apidae. London. 465 pp, 8 pl. (distribution); Smith, 1874Smith, F. 1874. Monograph of the genus Xylocopa, Latr. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London :247-302. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1896Dalla Torre, C.G. 1896. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, X. Apidae (Anthophila). Sumptibus Guilelmi Engelmann, 1-643. (distribution); Cockerell, 1919Cockerell, T.D.A. 1919. Bees in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 55 (2264):167-221. (distribution); Michener, 1954Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176. (distribution); Meurgey, 2016Meurgey, F. 2016. Bee species and their associated flowers in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, La Désirade, Marie Galante, St Barthelemy and Martinique) (Hymenoptera: Anthophila: Apoidea). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 52 (4):209-232.:217 ( listed as synonym of Xylocopa fimbriata Fabricius, 1804).
Xylocopa cornuta Lepeletier, 1841:176, ♀.Cayenne (Musée de M.M. Serville et comte Dejean); ♀, Cayenne (Musée de MM. Serville et comte Dejean). Synonymized with Xylocopa fimbriata Fabricius, 1804 by Smith, 1874Smith, F. 1874. Monograph of the genus Xylocopa, Latr. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London :247-302.:284. - Crawford, 1906Crawford, J.C. 1906. Some Costa Rican bees. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32 (2):157-163. (distribution); Meurgey, 2016Meurgey, F. 2016. Bee species and their associated flowers in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, La Désirade, Marie Galante, St Barthelemy and Martinique) (Hymenoptera: Anthophila: Apoidea). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 52 (4):209-232.:217 ( listed as synonym of Xylocopa fimbriata Fabricius, 1804).
Xylocopa fimbriata motaguensis Cockerell, 1912:556, ♀.Gualan, Guatemala, Feb. 1912 (leg. W.P. Cockerell). - Cockerell, 1946Cockerell, T.D.A. 1946. New species and subspecies collected in a month in Guatemala. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 54 (3):203-206. (distribution); Ospina, 2000Ospina, M. 2000. Abejas carpinteras (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae: Xylocopini) de la región Neotropical. Biota Colombiana 1 (3):239-252. (distribution); Meurgey, 2016Meurgey, F. 2016. Bee species and their associated flowers in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, La Désirade, Marie Galante, St Barthelemy and Martinique) (Hymenoptera: Anthophila: Apoidea). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France (N.S.) 52 (4):209-232.:217 ( listed as synonym of Xylocopa fimbriata Fabricius, 1804).