Griffithsia argus Montagne, 1841 [1839–1841]: 176, pl. 8: fig. 4 (type locality: Roque del Gando, Islas Canarias).
Wrangelia argus (Montagne) Montagne, 1856: 444.—Børgesen, 1945: 18.— Børgesen, 1952: 59.— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 12.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1964: 600.— S. Dixit, 1966: 18.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1968: 123, 124.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 46.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 24.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1970a: 41, figs. 54, 55.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1970b: 47, 48, 49.— C.S.P. Rao, 1971a: 394–395.— C.S.P. Rao, 1971b: 113–115, figs. 1–5.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1972: 221.— C.S.P. Rao, 1974b: 158–160, figs. 1–10.— Hackett, 1977: 22.— Chauhan & Mairh, 1978: 35.— Lawson, 1980: 62.— Chandrasekhara Rao et al., 1982: tables 2, 3.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [35].— Wollaston, 1984: 297.— R. Norris & Aken, 1985: 59–60.— P. Subba Rao et al., 1985: 34.— B. Subramanian, 1985a: 72, 79.— G. Rao & Umamaheswara Rao, 1986: 103.— Huisman et al., 1990: 97.— Kendrick, Huisman, & Walker, 1990: 52.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 20 (table 1).— Titlyanov et al., 1992: 18, 22 (tables 1, 2).— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 43.— Titlyanov et al., 1994: 260.— Wynne, 1995: 301.
Misapplied name (fide Børgesen, 1945: 18):
Wrangelia plebeia.—Jadin, 1935: 163 (in part; see also Wrangelia penicillata).
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Aldabra Islands, Australia, India, Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles (including Mahé Island), South Africa, Tanzania (Zanzibar).
Note: Tseng (1942b: 267–268) stated that he was fully convinced that reports of Wrangelia argus from Indonesia (Weber-van Bosse, 1921: 220–221) and India (Børgesen, 1937b: 338) referred to his new species, W. tayloriana (treated as a taxonomic synonym of W. tanegana Harvey).