Papenfussia minuta Kylin, 1938: 17, pl. 5: fig. 15 (type locality: Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa).
Pollexfenia minuta (Kylin) Papenfuss, 1942: 447.—Stephenson, 1944: 313.— Stephenson, 1947: 307.— Seagrief, 1977: 90.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1987: 177.— Seagrief, 1988: 64, fig. 5:14.— R. Anderson & Stegenga, 1989: 304.— Farrell, Critchley, & Aken, 1993: 151.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: South Africa.
Note: Stephenson (1947: 307) employed the Papenfuss manuscript name Pollexfenia multipartita, without a description, to record a specimen from East London, Cape Province that appears to be a finely branched form of P. minuta.