• Status as species: Arnol'di, 1977b: 1647 (in key); Dlussky et al., 1990: 223; Bolton, 1995b: 256; Collingwood & Heatwole, 2002: 7; Paknia et al., 2010: 33; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 45; Borowiec, 2014: 110.

Citations

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