• Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 21; Mayr, 1863a: 459; Mayr, 1886d: 438; Cresson, 1887: 259; Dalla Torre, 1893: 18; Emery, 1895d: 266; Emery, 1911e: 52; Weber, 1939a: 99 (in key); Borgmeier, 1949: 205 (in key); Smith, 1951c: 785; Smith, 1955c: 98; Smith & Wing, 1955: 110 (redescription); Brown, 1958g: 253, 341; Smith, 1958c: 111; Carter, 1962a: 6 (in list); Smith, 1967a: 347; Alayo & Zayas Montero, 1977: 4; Smith, 1979: 1339; Deyrup et al., 1989: 93; Brandão, 1991: 340; Bolton, 1995b: 172; Deyrup, 2003: 45; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 68; Deyrup, 2017: 15; Escárraga et al., 2019: 687; Lubertazzi, 2019: 110; Chaul, 2020: 206.

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