Original description as Heros bifasciatus:
ZooBank:39B1B3A3-27CC-40AE-90B9-371F63092CCA.
- Steindachner, Franz. 1864. "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Chromiden Mejico's und Central-Amerika's". Denkschriften der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. 23(2):57-74 (ffm00248)
Conservation: Vieja bifasciata is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (DD) data deficient (2018). Vieja bifasciata remains stable in most of its range.