Published as part of Watts, Chris H. S., Cooper, Steven J. B. & Saint, Kathleen M., 2017, Review of Australian Scirtes Illiger, Ora Clark and Exochomoscirtes Pic (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) including descriptions of new species, new groups and a multi-gene molecular phylogeny of Australian and non-Australian species, pp. 511-532 in Zootaxa 4347 (3) on page 527, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/1048629

Scirtes exoletus Waterhouse, 1880 Notes. A very widespread, quite common species found in all states and mainland territories of Australia. Specimens from the Northern Territory, New South Wales and Victoria were identical in the genes sequenced; however, the specimen from Wongabel on the Atherton Tableland of North Queensland differed by 7.2% (pdistance) for COI, potentially indicative of a separate species.