• Combination in Rhopalothrix (Octostruma): Emery, 1924f: 329.
• Combination in Octostruma: Brown, 1949f: 92
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 145; Emery, 1894d: 216 (in key); Forel, 1895b: 135; Emery, 1924f: 329; Borgmeier, 1927c: 121; Santschi, 1933f: 117; Brown, 1949h: 92; Kusnezov & Golbach, 1952: 424; Brown & Kempf, 1960: 199 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 169; Bolton, 1995b: 293; Wild, 2007b: 34; Longino, 2013b: 49; Fernández & Serna, 2019: 868.
• Senior synonym of Octostruma truncata: Brown & Kempf, 1960: 199; Kempf, 1972b: 169; Bolton, 1995b: 293; Longino, 2013b: 49.

Junior synonyms

• Octostruma truncata (Forel, 1912)
  Obsolete combination(s): Rhopalothrix truncata

Obsolete combinations

• Rhopalothrix rugifer

Citations

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