• Lectotype designation: Brandão, 1990b: 425.
• Brandão, 1990b: 426 (q.m.); Boudinot et al., 2013: 50 (w.q.m.)
• Status as species: Forel, 1899b: 58; Wheeler, 1909b: 236 (in key); Emery, 1922c: 190; Wheeler, 1925a: 33 (in key); Ettershank, 1966: 105; Kempf, 1972b: 140; Brandão, 1990b: 425 (redescription); Brandão, 1991: 355; Bolton, 1995b: 249; Brandão, 2003b: 148; Longino, 2010: 46; Boudinot et al., 2013: 50; Fernández & Serna, 2019: 806.

Citations

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