• [Misspelled as levithorax by Dalla Torre, 1893: 61.]
• [Misspelled as leviuscula by Emery, 1901i: 567.]
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 61; Emery, 1895m: 465; Forel, 1903a: 699; Bingham, 1903: 213; Wheeler, 1922: 1026; Ettershank, 1966: 149 (error).
• Subspecies of Vollenhovia oblonga: Emery, 1897: 560 (in text); Emery, 1900: 680; Emery, 1901i: 567; Forel, 1903f: 404; Emery, 1914f: 406; Wheeler, 1919f: 82; Emery, 1922c: 164; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 171; Bolton, 1995b: 422; Mohanraj et al., 2010: 8; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 55; Bharti et al., 2016: 48; Akbar et al., 2023: 87.

Obsolete combinations

• Vollenhovia laevithorax

Citations

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