• Status as species: Norton, 1868c: 4.
• Junior synonym of Dolichoderus bispinosus: Emery, 1892c: 167; Dalla Torre, 1893: 158; Forel, 1895b: 107; Forel, 1899b: 99; Wheeler, 1908a: 150; Emery, 1913a: 9; Borgmeier, 1923: 81; Kempf, 1959c: 240; Kempf, 1972b: 142; MacKay, 1993b: 42; Shattuck, 1994: 44; Bolton, 1995b: 172; Ortiz & Fernández, 2011: 53.

Obsolete combinations

• Polyrhachis arboricola

Citations

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