= Vespa rufescens Geoffroy, 1785. = Ichneumon auratus Panzer, 1798. = Cleptes pallipes Lepeletier, 1806. = Cleptes diana Mocsáry 1889.
Sphex semiaurata Linnaeus 1761: 413. Lectotype ♂ (designation by Day 1979: 2); Sweden: Scania (LSUK).
Chrysis semiaurata: Fabricius 1775: 359.
Vespa rufescens Geoffroy, 1785: 441. Holotype ♀; France: Paris (depository unknown).
Ichneumon auratus Panzer, 1798: heft 52 (26). Holotype ♀; Germany (depository unknown).
Cleptes semi-auratus: Latreille 1802: 316.
Cleptes semiaurata: Fabricius 1804: 154; Dahlbom 1831: 23; 1845: 2; 1854: 15.
Cleptes pallipes Lepeletier, 1806: 119. Holotype ♀; France: sorroundings of Paris (MNHN); Latreille 1809: 449; du Buysson in André 1891: 83, 90, Plate 4 (Fig. 4); 1898: 545, 563, 566; 1900: 125; 1901: 97; Semenov-Tian-Shanskij 1920: 317; Móczár: 1949: 42; 1951: 264, 274, 275 (Figs 20–21); 1962: 117; 1967: 6; 2001: 905, 908, 911 (Fig. 8), 912 (Figs 13– 14), 917; Zimmermann 1954: 1; Kusdas 1956: 326; Mingo 1994: 29, 31, 32 (Figs 8 c, 8 d); Strumia 1995: 2; Rosa 2005: 8, 2006: 51, 55, 57, 86, 93, Plate I (Figs 9, 14); Schljachtenok 2006: 286; Strumia & Yıldırım 2008: 56, 81; Turrisi 2009: 299, 300 (Fig. 8, ♂; Tyrner et al. 2010: 46; Szczepko & Wiśniowski 2009: 170; Orlovskytė et al. 2010: 145; Burger & Sobczyk 2011: 53, 54, 55; Szczepko et al. 2012: 7; Macek et al. 2012: 44, 45 (Fig. 2); Pavesi & Rosa 2013: 48; Paukkunen et al. 2014: 9.
Cleptes semiauratus: Mocsáry 1882: 19; 1889: 47 (partim); Dalla Torre 1892: 5; Linsenmaier 1959: 10; Gauss 1964: 225, 227 (Fig. 1, ♂, ♀); Morgan 1984: 10 (lectotype design. ♀ of C. pallipes Lepeletier, MNHN), 14, 35 (Fig. 91); Gould & Bolton 1988: cover image (♀), 230 (Fig. 136, ♀); Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 54 (Fig. 11, ♀), 55 (Figs 12 c, 12 f), 63; Kunz 1994: 47, 72, 73 (Fig. 159, m, ♀); Linsenmaier 1997: 31, 42, 45 (colour drawings); Mandery & Niehuis 2000: 52; Niehuis 2001: 1 21; Yıldırım & Strumia 2001: 163; Peeters 2004: 186 (Fig. 7); Rosa 2006: Plate I (Fig. 12); Tyrner 2007: 46.
Cleptes Diana Mocsáry 1889: 46. Holotypus ♂; Greece (HNHM); Dalla Torre 1892: 2. Cleptes semiauratus var. pallipes: Housiaux 1922: 24, 25.
Cleptes semiaurata var. pallipes: Berland & Bernard: 1938: 20, 23.