• Forel, 1911c: 217 (w.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953d: 185 (l.)
• Status as species: Forel, 1903a: 692; Forel, 1911c: 217; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 122; Emery, 1922c: 119; Wheeler, 1929e: 96; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 111; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 86; Taylor, 1987a: 66; Taylor, 1991b: 609; Bolton, 1995b: 377; Xu, 1999a: 131 (in key); Bharti et al., 2016: 44; Dias et al., 2020: 90.

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