| Name | Empusa caroliniana Thaxter |
| Authorship | Thaxter |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Empusa Cohn |
| Citation | 1888 Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 4(6): 167 |
| Holdings | 6 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Empusa caroliniana Thaxter |
| Identification made in | [no date] (3), 1978 (2), 1988 (1) |