• Roger, 1861a: 36 (q.); Mayr, 1876: 95 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971d: 251 (l.); Imai et al., 1977: 345 (k.)
• Status as species: Roger, 1861a: 35; Mayr, 1862: 724 (in key); Roger, 1863b: 23; Mayr, 1863a: 430; Mayr, 1865: 84; Lowne, 1865b: 336; Mayr, 1876: 95; Dalla Torre, 1893: 21; Forel, 1910b: 8; Emery, 1911e: 20; Forel, 1915b: 5; Viehmeyer, 1924b: 222; Crawley, 1926: 381 (redescription); Wheeler, 1933i: 48; Clark, 1951: 113 (redescription); Kugler, 1980b: 265; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 13; Taylor, 1987a: 44; Ogata, 1991a: 359; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1639 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 272; Liu et al., 2019: 1 (anatomy).

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