• Menozzi, 1926e: 99 (q.); Karavaiev, 1927f: 47 (m.)
• Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrma): Wheeler, 1919f: 124
• Status as species: Wang et al., 2022: 56.
• Senior synonym of Polyrhachis nigropilosa conophthalma: Kohout, 1998: 522

Junior synonyms

• Polyrhachis nigropilosa conophthalma Emery, 1900

Citations

• Karavaiev, V. 1927f. Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet. III. Zbirnyk Prats' Zoolohichnoho Muzeyu 3:3-52 [= Trudy. Ukrains'ka Akademiya Nauk. Fizichno-Matematichnoho Viddilu 7:3-52]. PDF
• Kohout, R. J. 1998. New synonyms and nomenclatural changes in the ant genus Polyrhachis Fr. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42:505-531.
• Mayr, G. 1872. Formicidae Borneenses collectae a J. Doria et O. Beccari in territorio Sarawak annis 1865-1867. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 2:133-155. PDF
• Menozzi, C. 1926e ("1925"). Nuove formiche delle isole Filippine e di Singapore. Atti della Società dei Naturalisti e Matematici di Modena 56[=(6)4]:92-103. PDF
• Wang, W. Y.; Soh, E. J. Y.; Yong, G. W. J.; Wong, M. K. L.; Guénard, B.; Economo, E. P.; Yamane, S. 2022. Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy. Asian Myrmecology 15: e015006:1-152. [online early] 10.20362/am.015006 PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1919f. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:43-147. PDF