• Status as species: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929d: 9; Pisarski, 1967a: 383; Arnol'di, 1977b: 1647 (in key); Dlussky, 1981b: 17; Dlussky et al., 1990: 228; Bolton, 1995b: 258.

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