• Lectotype designation: Radchenko & Elmes, 1998: 5.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 112; Emery, 1895m: 471; Forel, 1903a: 697; Bingham, 1903: 267; Emery, 1921c: 38; Wheeler, 1928c: 8; Wheeler, 1929h: 37; Eidmann, 1941a: 15; Weber, 1950c: 219; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 127; Wu & Wang, 1992c: 1304; Bolton, 1995b: 281; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 92; Tang et al., 1995: 48; Radchenko & Elmes, 1998: 5; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 299; Zhou, 2001a: 118; Wei et al., 2001: 561 (in key); Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 199; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 47; Bharti et al., 2016: 40.

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