species Scriptolamprotula polysticta (Heude, 1877): synonymy

Unio affinis Heude, 1875

(renamed Quadrula (Lamprotula) similaris Simpson, 1900; homonym of Unio affinis Lea, 1852; renamed Unio polystictus Heude, 1877)
Heude, 1875. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (1): pl. 3, figs. 7-7a.
Type(s): SYNTYPE MNHN_MP_3369, Chine.

Quadrula (Lamprotula) similaris — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Quadrula) nodulosus — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Lamprotula similaris — Haas (1969), He & Zhuang (2013)
Gibbosula polysticta — Lopes-Lima et al. (2018)

Unio polystictoscriptus Heude, 1877

Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 13, fig. 26 [as ‘polystico-scriptus’].

Quadrula (Lamprotula) polysticto-scriptus — Simpson (1900)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) polysticta — Simpson (1914)
Lamprotula polysticta — Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Prozorova et al. (2005), IUCN (2011)
Aculamprotula polysticta — He & Zhuang (2013)

Unio polystictus Heude, 1877

(new name for Unio affinis Heude, 1875)
Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 12, fig. 25.

Quadrula (Lamprotula) polystictus — Simpson (1900)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) polysticta — Simpson (1914)
Lamprotula polysticta — Haas (1969), Liu et al. (1979), Prozorova et al. (2005), Hu (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), IUCN (2011), Xiong et al. (2012)
Lamprotula (Scriptolamprotula) polystictus — Yu et al. (2001)
Aculamprotula polysticta — He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018), Huang et al. (2019), Chen et al. (2026)
Gibbosula polysticta — Lopes-Lima et al. (2018), Vikhrev et al. (2019), Liu et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021)
“Aculamprotula polysticta” ** — Wu et al. (2020), Wu et al. (2021), Wu et al. (2022), Wu et al. (2023), Wu et al. (2024), ... Chen et al. (2025), Hou et al. (2025), Wang et al. (2025), Wu et al. (2026), Wu et al. (2026)
“Scriptolamprotula polysticta” ** — Campbell & Lydeard (2026)

Unio scriptopolystictus Heude, 1877

Heude, 1877. Conch. Fluv. Nanking (2): pl. 13, fig. 27 [as ‘scripto-polystictus’].

Quadrula (Lamprotula) polysticto-scriptus — Simpson (1900)
Quadrula (Lamprotula) polysticta — Simpson (1914)
Lamprotula polysticta — Haas (1969), Prozorova et al. (2005), IUCN (2011)
Aculamprotula polysticta — He & Zhuang (2013)

Quadrula (Lamprotula) similaris Simpson, 1900

(new name for Unio affinis Heude, 1875)
Simpson, 1900. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 22: 799.
Simpson, 1914. Descr. Cat. Naiades: 924.

Quadrula (Lamprotula) similaris — Simpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (Quadrula) nodulosus — Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905)
Lamprotula similaris — Haas (1969), Prozorova et al. (2005), Hu (2005), Graf & Cummings (2007), Bogan (2010), He & Zhuang (2013), Zieritz et al. (2018)
Gibbosula polysticta — Lopes-Lima et al. (2018), Graf & Cummings (2021)

Unio scriptopolystrictus Paetel, 1890

(error for Unio scriptopolystictus Heude, 1877)
Paetel, 1890. Cat. Conch.-Samml. 3: 167 [as ‘scripto-polystrictus’].

Quadrula (Lamprotula) polysticto-scriptus — Simpson (1900)

Unio polystictoseriptus Liu et al., 1979

(error for Unio polystictoscriptus Heude, 1877)
Liu et al., 1979. Econ. Fauna China: 101 [as ‘polysticto-seriptus’].