Neomeris dumetosa Lamouroux, 1816: 243, pl. VII: fig. 8 (type locality: Antilles, West Indies).—De Wildeman, 1897a: 23.— Schröder, 1912: 297.— Weber-van Bosse, 1913a: 88.— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 11.— Isaac, 1956a: 175.— Isaac, 1958: 20.— Pocock, 1958: 25.— W.R. Taylor, 1966a: 347.— Valet, 1969: 595–596, pl. 35: figs. 3, 4.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 7.— Brown & Jarman, 1978: 1254.— Lawson, 1980: 15.— Seagrief, 1980: 22, fig. on pl. 3.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [13].— Jagtap, 1985a: 46, 50.— Berger & Kaever, 1992: 109.— Jagtap, 1992: 57.— Critchley et al., 1994: 262.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Andaman Islands, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nicobar Islands, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania.