• Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla): Kohout, 1994b: 137 (in Polyrhachis viehmeyeri species group).
• Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 351; Dorow, 1995: 60; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 36; Maschwitz et al., 2000: 27; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 68.

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dorow, W. H. O. 1995. Revision of the ant genus Polyrhachis Smith, 1857 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) on subgenus level with keys, checklist of species and bibliography. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 185:1-113. PDF
• Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. PDF
• Khachonpisitsak, S.; Yamane, S.; Sriwichai, P.; Jaitrong, W. 2020. An updated checklist of the ants of Thailand (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 998:1-182. 10.3897/zookeys.998.54902 PDF
• Kohout, R. J. 1994b. Polyrhachis lama, a new ant from the Tibetan plateau (Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 35:137-138. PDF
• Maschwitz, U.; Dorow, W. H. O.; Buschinger, A.; Kalytta, G. 2000. Social parasitism involving ants of different subfamilies: Polyrhachis lama (Formicinae) an obligatory inquiline of Diacamma sp. (Ponerinae) in Java. Insectes Sociaux 47:27-35. PDF