• Ogata, 1987a: 107 (m.); Onoyama & Yoshimura, 2002: 35 (q.)
• Combination in Proceratium: Brown, 1958g: 247.
• Status as species: Brown, 1958g: 247; Onoyama, 1980a: 196; Ogata, 1987a: 106; Morisita et al., 1989: 15; Bolton, 1995b: 366; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 36; Tang et al., 1995: 29; Kim et al., 1998: 151; Xu, 2000c: 434 (in key); Onoyama & Yoshimura, 2002: 32 (redescription); Baroni Urbani & de Andrade, 2003a: 267 (redescription); Imai et al., 2003: 218; Lin & Wu, 2003: 67; Xu, 2006: 153 (in key); Terayama, 2009: 97; Zhou & Ran, 2010: 110; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 62; Staab et al., 2018: 153 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Sysphincta itoi

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