• [First available use of Polyrhachis rastellata levior pilosa Forel, 1902j; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name (Taylor, 1986: 34).]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1910h: 284 (in key); Emery, 1925d: 208.
• Status as species: Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 518; Bolton, 1995b: 354; Dorow, 1995: 23; Kohout, 2000: 195; Kohout, 2006d: 102.

Obsolete combinations

• Polyrhachis rastellata pilosa

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Donisthorpe, H. 1938c. The subgenus Cyrtomyrma Forel of Polyrhachis Smith, and descriptions of new species, etc. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)1:246-267.
• 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
• 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. 2006d. Review of Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) of Australia, Borneo, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands with descriptions of new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 52:87-146. 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
• Santschi, F. 1910h. Deux nouvelles fourmis du Tonkin. Naturaliste 32:283-284. PDF
• Taylor, R. W. 1986. The quadrinominal infrasubspecific names of Australian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). General and Applied Entomology 18:33-37. PDF