• Status as species: Kutter, 1968b: 61; Kutter, 1977c: 284; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 59; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 285 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 192; Seifert, 2000a: 538 (redescription); Petrov, 2006: 111 (in key); Seifert, 2007: 329; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 481; Karaman, 2011b: 83; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 492; Borowiec, 2014: 72; Lebas et al., 2016: 170; Radchenko, 2016: 313; Steiner et al., 2017: 8; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 44; Seifert, 2018: 340; Seifert & Schultz, 2021: 199; Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 161 (redescription); Bračko, 2023: 162.

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