• Wheeler, 1928d: 112 (m.); Imai, 1966b: 119 (k.)
• Status as species: Yano, 1910a: 420; Forel, 1912a: 54; Forel, 1912m: 339; Emery, 1922c: 164; Wheeler, 1928d: 112; Wheeler, 1929h: 60; Santschi, 1937h: 375; Teranishi, 1940: 33, 57; Morisita, 1945: 23; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 170; Azuma, 1951: 87; Azuma, 1953: 2; Ettershank, 1966: 149; Azuma, 1977a: 114; Onoyama, 1980a: 198; Ogata, 1991b: 116; Bolton, 1995b: 422; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 107; Terayama & Kinomura, 1997: 6 (in key); Zhou, 2001a: 135; Imai et al., 2003: 129; Lin & Wu, 2003: 64; Radchenko, 2005b: 154; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 57; Wetterer et al., 2015: 105; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 136.
• Senior synonym of Vollenhovia chosenica: Radchenko, 2005b: 154.

Junior synonyms

• Vollenhovia chosenica Wheeler, 1928
  Obsolete combination(s): Vollenhovia emeryi chosenica

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