| Authorship | Viehmeyer, 1912b: 12 | 
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| Forms | w. | 
| Bioregion | Australasia | 
| Locality | NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea) | 
| Primary type information | Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea (“German New Guinea”): Torricelli Mts (640 m.), 17-18.ix.1909 (O. Schlaginhaufen). Primary type depository: MNHU (perhaps also SMTD). | 
| Polyrhachis schlaginhaufeni longispina | Subspecies | Synonym junior synonym of current valid taxon Polyrhachis aurita Emery, 1911 | Original combination |