* MacRae TC (1991) The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Missouri. Insecta Mundi, 5(2), 101–126.
------- it may refer to other species of the femorata complex as it pre-dates Wellso & Manley, 2007.
* Paiero SM, Jackson MD, Jewiss-Gaines A, Kimoto T, Gill BD, Marshall SA (2012) Field guide to the jewel beetles of northeastern North America. Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
* MacRae TC (1991) The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Missouri. Insecta Mundi, 5(2), 101–126.
------- it may refer to other species of the femorata complex as it pre-dates Wellso & Manley, 2007.
* Zeller W (1977) Studies on fire blight in the German Federal Republic. 2. Susceptibility of woody ornamentals to Erwinia amylovora. Nachrichtenblatt des Deutschen Pflanzenschutzdienstes 29(1 ), p 1-10.
* Danilevsky AS, Kuznetsov VI (1968) [Tortricidae: The subgenus Aspila Stph., the section funebranae. In Fauna of the USSR, Lepidoptera (ed. Byhovsky BE)], pp. 305-309. Leningrad, Nauka, 5(1). (in Russian)
------- confirmed host.
* Heppner JB (2003) Lepidoptera of Florida. Part 1. Introduction and catalog. Volume 17 of Arthropods of Florida and neighboring land areas. Division of Plant Industry. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Gainesville, Florida. 670 pp
* Robinson GS, Ackery PR, Kitching IJ, Beccaloni GW & Hernández LM (2010) HOST - A database of the world's Lepidopteran hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. https://www.nhm.ac.uk (Accessed on 7 December 2020 and 21 March 2021)
* Yee WL, Norrbom AL (2017) Provisional List of Suitable Host Plants of the Apple Maggot Fly, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh) (Diptera: Tephritidae), Version 1.0, 20pp, in USDA Compendium of Fruit Fly Host Information (CoFFHI)
Edition 2.0; https://coffhi.cphst.org/.
------- confirmed host
* Yee WL, Goughnour RB (2008) Host use by and new host records of apple maggot, western cherry fruit fly, and other Rhagoletis species (Diptera: Tephritidae) in western Washington state. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 84: 179–193
-------larval infestation
* Hess AD (1940) The biology and control of the round-headed apple-tree borer, Saperda candida Fabricius. New York State Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin no. 688, 93 pp.
* Stigter H, Geraedts WHJM, Spijkers HCP (1997) Thaumetopoea processionea in the Netherlands: Present status and management perspectives (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae). Proceedings of the Section Experimental and Applied Entomology of the Netherlands Entomological Society (N.E.V.) 3-16.
------- Occasional larval feeding.
* Maier CT (1990) Native and exotic rosaceous hosts of apple, plum, and quince curculio larvae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the Northeastern United States. Journal of Economic Entomology 83, 1326–1332.
* Yee WL, Norrbom AL (2017) Provisional List of Suitable Host Plants of the Apple Maggot Fly, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh) (Diptera: Tephritidae), Version 1.0, 20pp, in USDA Compendium of Fruit Fly Host Information (CoFFHI)
Edition 2.0; https://coffhi.cphst.org/.
------- the following North American species are confirmed hosts: Crataegus brachyacantha, Crataegus brainerdii, Crataegus cuprina, Crataegus erythropoda, Crataegus flava, Crataegus greggiana, Crataegus invisa, Crataegus rosei, Crataegus suksdorfii, Crataegus texana.