• Lectotype designation: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 200.
• [Misspelled as leviceps by Dalla Torre, 1893: 77.]
• Status as species: Mayr, 1870b: 996 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 77; Forel, 1895b: 130; Emery, 1896g: 86 (in key); Forel, 1912h: 5; Luederwaldt, 1918: 43; Mann, 1920b: 427; Emery, 1922c: 200; Borgmeier, 1927c: 105; Smith, 1930a: 3; Wheeler, 1932a: 10; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 92; Smith, 1951c: 813; Ettershank, 1966: 141; Kempf, 1970b: 334; Kempf, 1972b: 237; Bolton, 1995b: 388; Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 199 (redescription); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 816.

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