• [Also described as new by Forel, 1902g: 538.]
• Status as species: Bingham, 1903: 229; Emery, 1921c: 92; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 144; Collingwood, 1985: 254; Bolton, 1995b: 324; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 315; Collingwood et al., 2004: 478; Borowiec, 2014: 142; Bharti et al., 2016: 42; Sharaf et al., 2017: 31.

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