• Forel, 1915b: 44 (m.)
• Status as species: Mayr, 1886c: 363; Dalla Torre, 1893: 136; Forel, 1915b: 44; Emery, 1924f: 229; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 67; Taylor, 1987a: 38; Taylor, 1990d: 37 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 251; Schödl, 2007: 387 (redescription); Heterick, 2009: 151.

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