• Status as species: Yamauchi & Hayashida, 1970: 511 (in key); Azuma, 1977a: 117; Yamauchi, 1979: 156; Onoyama, 1980a: 199; Morisita et al., 1991: 27; Seifert, 1992b: 46 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 225; Imai et al., 2003: 62; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 33; Seifert, 2020a: 78.

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