• Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla): Emery, 1925d: 196.
• Status as species: Emery, 1896j: 381 (in list); Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 41 (error).
• Junior synonym of Polyrhachis tibialis: Forel, 1895f: 457 (in text); Bingham, 1903: 397.
• Subspecies of Polyrhachis tibialis: Emery, 1900: 717 (footnote); Emery, 1925d: 196; Santschi, 1928h: 137 (in key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 298; Bolton, 1995b: 345; Dorow, 1995: 48; Bharti et al., 2016: 32.

Obsolete combinations

• Polyrhachis caligata

Citations

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