• Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 113; Bolton, 1995b: 251; Schödl, 1998: 381 (redescription); Tiwari, 1999: 62; Bharti & Akbar, 2014c: 814 (in key); Bharti et al., 2016: 38; Dias et al., 2020: 76.

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