Pleotrichophorus rusticatus (Knowlton & Smith 1937) = Pleotrichophorus pullus (Gillette & Palmer 1933)

P. rusticatus was regarded as a synonym of P. pullus by Hille Ris Lambers (1969). Corpuz­Raros & Cook (1974) resurrected P. rusticatus as a good species on the basis of differences in shape of the frontal hairs, but after examining types of both, we think this is probably only local variation.