• Mayr, 1862: 688 (w.); Mayr, 1876: 70 (m.); Crozier, 1970a: 115 (k.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1990b: 756 (l.)
• Combination in Polyrhachis: Smith, 1858a: 59.
• Combination in Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma): Forel, 1915b: 107.
• Senior synonym of Polyrhachis rastellata ceylonensis: Dorow, 1995: 24
• See also: Kohout, 2006d: 114; Wong & Guénard, 2021: 47

Junior synonyms

• Polyrhachis rastellata ceylonensis Donisthorpe, 1938

Obsolete combinations

• Formica rastellata

Citations

• Crozier, R. H. 1970a. Karyotypes of twenty-one ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with reviews of the known ant karyotypes. Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology 12:109-128. PDF
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• Wong, T.L.; Guénard, B. 2021. Review of ants from the genus Polyrhachis Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) in Hong Kong and Macau, with notes on their natural history. Asian Myrmecology 13: e013001:1-70. 10.20362/am.013001 PDF