Description published
Alfken, Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Kolonial- und Übersee-Museum in Bremen, 1: 189.
Location of type
NOMEN NOVUM with same type specimen for preoccupied Osmia morawitzi Pérez, 1879 [not Osmia morawitzi Gerstaecker, 1869].-Combination Osmia (Hoplitis) benoisti Alfken in Warncke (1992a: 115).