• Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 134; Taylor, 1987a: 60.
• Junior synonym of Polyrhachis dives: Kohout, 1988c: 433; Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 511; Bolton, 1995b: 348; Dorow, 1995: 52; Kohout, 2000: 205; Zhou, 2001a: 191; Kohout, 2010: 179.

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