Vanvoorstia coccinea Harvey ex J. Agardh, 1863 [1851–1863]: 1271–1272 (type locality: Sri Lanka).—G. Murray, 1887: 32.— De Toni, 1900: 754.— Papenfuss, 1937: 55–59, figs. 64–72.— Kylin, 1956: 437.— S. Dixit, 1970: 123.— Islam, 1974b: 88–89.— Islam, 1976: 62–63, pl. 71: figs. a–e.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka.
Note: This species was distributed by Harvey (1857a: no. 4) in his Ceylon exsiccata under the name Vanvoorstia coccinea, without a description.