• Subspecies of Plagiolepis pallescens: Emery, 1924a: 8; Emery, 1925d: 21; Wheeler, 1927g: 114; Menozzi, 1932e: 453; Menozzi, 1934: 163; Finzi, 1936: 184; Santschi, 1936c: 206; Menozzi, 1940a: 270; Donisthorpe, 1942a: 31; Báez & Ortega, 1978: 190; Bolton, 1995b: 335; Sharaf et al., 2011: 206 (redescription); Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 14.
• Status as species: Bernard, 1945b: 136; Wellenius, 1955: 13; Barquín, 1981: 381; Collingwood, 1985: 297; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 362; Mohamed et al., 2001: 47; Cagniant, 2006: 194; Espadaler, 2007: 121; Salata et al., 2018: 820.
• Junior synonym of Plagiolepis barbara: Seifert, 2020b: 194.

Obsolete combinations

• Plagiolepis pallescens maura

Citations

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