• Kohout, 2013f: 146 (q.)
• Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrma): Emery, 1925d: 205; Kohout, 2013f: 145.
• Subspecies of Polyrhachis aculeata: Emery, 1925d: 205; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 255; Bolton, 1995b: 347; Dorow, 1995: 31.
• Status as species: Kohout, 2008a: 271; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 41; Kohout, 2013f: 145.

Obsolete combinations

• Polyrhachis aculeata cybele

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
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• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
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• Kohout, R. J. 2013f. A review of the Polyrhachis aculeata species-group of the subgenus Myrma Billberg (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae), with keys and descriptions of new species. Australian Entomologist 40 (3):137-171. PDF
• Pfeiffer, M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1919f. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:43-147. PDF