• Status as species: Xu & Zhang, 2002: 140 (in key); Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 39; Xu, 2012c: 484 (in key); Bharti & Akbar, 2015: 575 (in key); Man et al., 2017: 9 (in key); Hsu et al., 2017: 129 (in key); Baidya & Bagchi, 2020: 23 (in key); Griebenow, 2024: 117.

Citations

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