• Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrma): Emery, 1925d: 203.
• Status as species: Emery, 1889: 519; Dalla Torre, 1893: 263; Emery, 1895m: 481; Emery, 1901i: 568; Bingham, 1903: 406.
• Subspecies of Polyrhachis sumatrensis: Emery, 1893m: 270 (footnote); Forel, 1893e: 30; Emery, 1896j: 379 (in list); Forel, 1911f: 391; Forel, 1912o: 70; Forel, 1915a: 42; Emery, 1925d: 203; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 278; Bolton, 1995b: 349 (error); Dorow, 1995: 41 (error); Karmaly, 2004: 547 (error).
• Junior synonym of Polyrhachis sculpturata: Kohout, 1998: 524; Kohout, 2008a: 276.

Obsolete combinations

• Polyrhachis sumatrensis hamulata

Citations

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