- Gymnocera elegans Serville, 1838: 427.
Syntype; male; 9e121739-0ae5-4404-b48f-21af599d8f1d; . Syntype; female; bb1c69c0-c669-4031-9768-c4614384ecaf;
- Scaphura bicolor Blanchard, 1843: 215.
- Gymnocera bicolor (Blanchard, 1843) in Walker, 1869: 396.
- Gymnocera elegans Serville, 1838 in Walker, 1869: 396.
- Scaphura kirbii Westwood, 1828 in Walker, 1869: 395.
- Scaphura elegans (Serville, 1838) in Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878: 256, 258.
- Scaphura concisa Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878: 259-260.
Holotype; male; NMW 10100; deposited at: Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (NMW);
- Scaphura bicolor Blanchard, 1843 (synonym of Gymnocera elegans Serville, 1838) in Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878: 258-259.
- Scaphura kirbii Westwood, 1828 (synonym of Gymnocera elegans Serville, 1838) in Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878: 259.
- Scaphura concisa Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 (subjective synonym of Gymnocera elegans Serville, 1838)
- Scaphura elegans (Serville, 1838) in Karsch, 1889: 125.
- Gymnocera elegans Serville, 1838 in Kirby, 1906: 455.
- Scaphura bicolor Blanchard, 1843 (synonym of Gymnocera elegans Serville, 1838) in Kirby, 1906: 455.
- Gymnocera elegans Serville, 1838 in Rehn, 1913: 366.
- Gymnocera elegans Serville, 1838 in Bruner, 1915: 315.
- Gymnocera elegans Serville, 1838 in Hebard, 1931: 278.
- Gymnocera elegans Serville, 1838 in Pirán, 1943: 448.
- Gymnocera elegans Serville, 1838 in Ebner, 1953: 12.
- Scaphura elegans (Serville, 1838) in Grant, 1958: 3.
- Scaphura kirbii Westwood, 1828 (synonym of Gymnocera elegans Serville, 1838) in Otte, 1997: 190.
- Gymnocera elegans Serville, 1838 in Elgueta, Camousseight & Carbonell, 1999: 17.
- Gymnocera elegans Serville, 1838 in Romero Sueldo de Escaño, 2000: 195.
- Scaphura elegans (Serville, 1838) in Chamorro-Rengifo, Braun & Lopes-Andrade, 2014: 594.