• Combination in Polyrhachis (Hedomyrma): Emery, 1925d: 190.
• Subspecies of Polyrhachis terpsichore: Emery, 1925d: 190; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 141; Taylor, 1987a: 62.
• Status as species: Kohout, 1988c: 436; Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 512; Bolton, 1995b: 355; Dorow, 1995: 28; Kohout, 2000: 203.
• Senior synonym of Polyrhachis terpsichore elegans: Kohout, 1988c: 436; Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 512; Bolton, 1995b: 355; Dorow, 1995: 28; Kohout, 2000: 203.

Junior synonyms

• Polyrhachis terpsichore elegans Forel, 1910

Obsolete combinations

• Polyrhachis terpsichore rufifemur

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
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Forel, A. 1907d. Formicides du Musée National Hongrois. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 5:1-42. PDF
• Kohout, R. J. 1988c. Nomenclatural changes and new Australian records in the ant genus Polyrhachis Fr. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25:429-438. PDF
• Kohout, R. J. 2000. A review of the distribution of the Polyrhachis and Echinopla ants of the Queensland wet tropics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46:183-209. PDF
• Kohout, R. J.; Taylor, R. W. 1990. Notes on Australian ants of the genus Polyrhachis Fr. Smith, with a synonymic list of the species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28:509-522. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.