• Lectotype designation: Radchenko & Elmes, 2001b: 257.
• [Misspelled as thibetana by Forel, 1903a: 697; Forel, 1906b: 87.]
• Ruzsky, 1915a: 440 (m.); Collingwood, 1961a: 56 (q.).
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 118; Forel, 1903a: 697; Forel, 1906b: 87; Emery, 1908a: 181; Ruzsky, 1915a: 440; Emery, 1921c: 42; Menozzi, 1939a: 293 (in key); Weber, 1947b: 465; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 130; Collingwood, 1961a: 56; Bolton, 1995b: 284; Radchenko & Elmes, 2001b: 257; Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 304; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 48; Chen et al., 2016: 119 (in key); Seifert et al., 2018: 94.

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