Polyrhachis zopyrus Smith, 1861b: 43, pl. 1, fig. 22 (w.) INDONESIA (Sulawesi). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Sulawesi (“Celebes”), Tondano, “Tond.” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM. Type notes: 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 467, cites 1 worker in OXUM. 2) Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978, cites a second potential syntype in OXUM, now labelled “type-series?”.