• Status as species: Forel, 1903a: 713; Bingham, 1903: 66; Emery, 1911e: 104; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 35; Bolton, 1995b: 231; Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013c: 17 (in key); Xu & He, 2015: 154 (in key); Bharti et al., 2016: 52; Arimoto & Yamane, 2018: 27 (in key).

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