• [Misspelled as dorsiruga by Wheeler, 1929h: 63.]
• Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrma): Emery, 1925d: 201.
• Subspecies of Polyrhachis latona: Emery, 1925d: 201; Wheeler, 1929h: 63; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 272.
• Status as species: Wang & Wu, 1991: 599; Bolton, 1995b: 347; Dorow, 1995: 34.
• Junior synonym of Polyrhachis illaudata: Terayama, 2009: 219.
• Junior synonym of Polyrhachis latona: Wu & Wang, 1995a: 167; Lin & Wu, 2003: 61; Kohout, 2013f: 158; Wong & Guénard, 2020: 39.

Obsolete combinations

• Polyrhachis latona dorsorugosa

Citations

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