• [Misspelled as lignosa by Santschi, 1928h: 125.]
• Emery, 1889: 505 (w.m.); Forel, 1903a: 691 (w.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1954a: 142 (l.)
• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 178; Mayr, 1863a: 402; Roger, 1863b: 32; Mayr, 1867a: 107 (redescription); Smith, 1871a: 334; Forel, 1886d: 247; Emery, 1887f: 466; Emery, 1889: 505; Dalla Torre, 1893: 74; Emery, 1895m: 467; Emery, 1900: 688; Forel, 1903a: 691; Bingham, 1903: 151; Forel, 1907h: 17; Forel, 1909i: 225; Santschi, 1924c: 100; Emery, 1924f: 220; Stitz, 1925c: 120; Wheeler, 1927b: 45; Santschi, 1928h: 125; Teranishi, 1940: 67; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 155; Collingwood, 1962c: 225; Ettershank, 1966: 127; Collingwood, 1970b: 377; Bolton, 1995b: 133; Xu, 1999a: 130 (redescription); Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 334; Ghosh et al., 2005: 23; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 41; Bharti & Kumar, 2013b: 63 (in key); Bharti et al., 2016: 34; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 82; Liu et al., 2024: 26.

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