Original description as Lamprologus pleuromaculatus:
ZooBank:8070174F-E537-47FB-B9A0-48C56CBD1C86.
- Trewavas, Ethelwynn & Max Poll. 1952. "Three new species and two new subspecies of the genus Lamprologus, Cichlid fishes of Lake Tanganyika". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 28(50):1-16 (crc00055)
Conservation: Lepidiolamprologus pleuromaculatus is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (LC) least concern (2006).