• Lectotype designation: DuBois, 1998b: 226.
• Mayr, 1861: 56 (w.q.); Perkins, 1891: 123 (gynandromorph)
• Status as species: Smith, 1851: 5; Curtis, 1854: 217; Smith, 1855b: 134; Smith, 1858b: 281; Mayr, 1861: 56 (in key); Roger, 1863b: 25; Mayr, 1863a: 454; Smith, 1871c: 4; Dours, 1873: 170; Forel, 1874: 82 (in key); André, 1874b: 188 (in key); Emery, 1878: 50; Emery & Forel, 1879: 456; Saunders, 1880: 216; André, 1883a: 312 (in key); White, 1884: 266; Nasonov, 1889: 36; Lameere, 1892: 68; Dalla Torre, 1893: 121; Forel, 1894d: 33; Saunders, 1896: 35; Ruzsky, 1902d: 26; Ruzsky, 1905b: 709; Forel, 1905e: 183; Wasmann, 1906: 117; Emery, 1908d: 306; Bondroit, 1910: 495; Bondroit, 1911a: 12; Stitz, 1914: 67; Emery, 1914c: 156; Donisthorpe, 1915f: 139; Forel, 1915d: 37 (in key); Escherich, 1917: 325; Bondroit, 1918: 148; Menozzi, 1921: 25; Emery, 1921c: 53; Soudek, 1922b: 32; Müller, 1923a: 66; Müller, 1923b: 46; Finzi, 1924a: 12; Stärcke, 1926a: 86 (in key); Donisthorpe, 1927c: 153; Kutter, 1927a: 98; Menozzi, 1927b: 90; Lomnicki, 1928: 6; Arnol'di, 1928b: 206; Finzi, 1930d: 311; Karavaiev, 1930b: 145; Karavaiev, 1931e: 211; Gösswald, 1932: 73; Karavaiev, 1934: 97 (redescription); Grandi, 1935: 99; Novák & Sadil, 1941: 81 (in key); Van Boven, 1947b: 171 (in key); Consani & Zangheri, 1952: 40; Ceballos, 1956: 303; Baroni Urbani, 1964b: 28; Bernard, 1967a: 127 (redescription); Kutter, 1968b: 59; Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 59; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 39; Collingwood, 1971: 159; Kutter, 1971: 261; Banert & Pisarski, 1972: 349; Arnol'di, 1975: 1826; Bolton & Collingwood, 1975: 4 (in key); Pisarski, 1975: 15; Van Boven, 1977: 86; Collingwood, 1978: 80 (in key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 535 (in key); Collingwood, 1979: 60; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 53; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 269 (in key); Mei, 1992a: 417; DuBois, 1993: 307 (redescription); Arakelian, 1994: 29; Bolton, 1995b: 394; DuBois, 1998b: 226 (redescription); Gallé et al., 1998: 214; Petrov, 2006: 89 (in key); Werner & Wiezik, 2007: 147; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 142; Boer, 2010: 64; Liu & Xu, 2011: 737 (in key); Rigato, 2011: 14 (redescription); Bharti et al., 2012a: 326 (in key); Borowiec, 2014: 161; Lebas et al., 2016: 336; Seifert, 2018: 226; Arcos et al., 2022: 12.

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