Type notes:
Material included: Iraq: Amara, 1918 (P.A. Buxton), Iraq: Baghdad, 1918 (W.E. Evans); workers, deposited in OXUM and perhaps BMNH (no type status).
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1922d: 95.
Declared as unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Bolton, 1995b: 256.