• Lectotype designation: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 198.
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1910a: 563; Emery, 1922c: 200; Smith, 1943a: 211 (in key); Creighton, 1950a: 236; Smith, 1951c: 813; Cole, 1953i: 299; Smith, 1958c: 129; Ettershank, 1966: 141; Smith, 1979: 1387; Dlussky, 1981b: 48; MacKay et al., 1988: 101; Bolton, 1995b: 388; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 230; Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 196 (redescription).

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