• [Justified emendation of spelling to Polyrhachis bellicosa by B. Bolton.]
• Hung, 1970: 7 (m.); Kohout, 1988b: 418 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1990b: 762 (l.)
• Combination in Myrma (Polyrhachis): Wheeler, 1911c: 860.
• Combination in Polyrhachis (Polyrhachis): Emery, 1925d: 182; Kohout, 2014: 6.
• Subspecies of Polyrhachis bihamata: Mayr, 1862: 678.
• Junior synonym of Polyrhachis bihamata: Roger, 1863b: 6.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 443; Smith, 1865a: 69; Mayr, 1867a: 50 (redescription); Smith, 1871a: 313; Mayr, 1872: 140; Emery, 1887a: 237; Emery, 1888: 530; Forel, 1893e: 30; Dalla Torre, 1893: 259; Emery, 1893g: 198; Emery, 1896j: 380 (in list); Emery, 1897: 582; Emery, 1900: 713; Forel, 1901c: 33; Dahl, 1901: 16 (in key); Bingham, 1903: 387; Forel, 1907h: 20; Wheeler, 1909d: 344; Emery, 1911f: 532; Stitz, 1911a: 381; Stitz, 1912: 513; Viehmeyer, 1914c: 532; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 166; Viehmeyer, 1916b: 287; Wheeler, 1919f: 121; Crawley, 1924a: 407; Emery, 1925d: 182; Stitz, 1925c: 129; Karavaiev, 1927f: 12; Menozzi, 1930a: 5; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 454; Wheeler, 1935g: 45; Donisthorpe, 1943e: 461; Donisthorpe, 1948b: 317; Donisthorpe, 1949h: 417; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 303; Baltazar, 1966: 279; Hung, 1970: 5 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 132; Taylor, 1987a: 59; Kohout, 1988b: 418; Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 511; Bolton, 1995b: 344; Dorow, 1995: 64; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005: 37; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 40; Kohout, 2012a: 55 (redescription); Kohout, 2014: 6 (redescription); Jaitrong et al., 2016: 30; Wang et al., 2022: 65.
• Senior synonym of Polyrhachis bellicosa crudelis: Hung, 1970: 5; Bolton, 1995b: 344; Dorow, 1995: 64; Kohout, 2012a: 55; Kohout, 2014: 6.

Junior synonyms

• Polyrhachis bellicosa crudelis Emery, 1887

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