• Forel, 1909k: 393 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1954b: 150 (l.); Bolton, 1974a: 83 (m.)
• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 195; Smith, 1862d: 414; Mayr, 1863a: 403; Roger, 1863b: 39; Motschoulsky, 1863: 21; Smith, 1871a: 335; Dalla Torre, 1893: 139; Emery, 1893h: 248; Emery, 1901h: 121; Forel, 1903a: 706; Rothney, 1903: 97; Bingham, 1903: 123; Forel, 1908b: 2; Forel, 1909k: 393; Forel, 1911c: 226; Forel, 1913l: 83; Emery, 1924f: 299; Mukerjee, 1930: 155; Mukerjee, 1934: 4; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 86; Bolton, 1974a: 83 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 139; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 321; Mohanraj et al., 2010: 6; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 41; Bharti et al., 2016: 35; Dias et al., 2020: 67.

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