• Forel, 1900f: 313 (m.)
• Combination in Leptogenys: Forel, 1900f: 313; Emery, 1911e: 103
• Status as species: Smith, 1873: viii; Mayr, 1879: 665 (in key); Forel, 1885b: 177; Rothney, 1889: 373; Dalla Torre, 1893: 44; Emery, 1893h: 242; Forel, 1900f: 313; Emery, 1901h: 113; Rothney, 1903: 97; Bingham, 1903: 69; Yano, 1910a: 418; Emery, 1911e: 103; Wheeler & Chapman, 1925: 70; Wheeler, 1930k: 60; Teranishi, 1940: 38, 65; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 33; Baltazar, 1966: 237; Onoyama, 1980a: 196; Bolton, 1995b: 230; Tang et al., 1995: 36; Xu, 1996b: 225; Xu, 2000a: 119 (in key); Zhou, 2001a: 44; Lin & Wu, 2003: 67; Zhou, 2006: 580; Terayama, 2009: 115; Zhou & Ran, 2010: 105; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 59; Zhou et al., 2012: 887 (in key); Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013c: 18 (in key); Xu & He, 2015: 159 (in key); Bharti et al., 2016: 51; Wachkoo et al., 2018: 6 (in key); Arimoto & Yamane, 2018: 29 (in key); Dias et al., 2020: 111; Subedi et al., 2022: 15; Wang et al., 2022: 124.

Obsolete combinations

• Lobopelta chinensis

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