Eickstedt (1932 p. 612) provided a review of fossil discoveries and included the name Praehomo asiaticus javanensis in Table 2, refering to the Trinil discoveries.
Campbell (1965) listed this taxon as an objective junior synonym to Pithecanthropus erectus Dubois, 1894. Groves (1989) listed this name as an available junior synonym of Homo erectus. According to Groves (1989) no type is fixed by Eickstedt (1932).
