Taxonomic history
Forel, 1912l PDF: 162 (q.).Subspecies of Vollenhovia oblonga laevithorax: Forel, 1907g: 93; Forel, 1912l PDF: 162; Wheeler, 1922: 1026; Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 149; Dorow, 1996a PDF: 82.Subspecies of Vollenhovia oblonga: Emery, 1897: 560 (in text); Emery, 1914f PDF: 406; Wheeler, 1919f PDF: 82; Emery, 1922c PDF: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 422; Pfeiffer et al., 2011 PDF: 55.