• Kohout, 2012a: 51 (q.)
• Junior synonym of Polyrhachis queenslandica: Crawley, 1921: 96; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 139; Taylor, 1987a: 62; Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 512.
• Status as species: Kohout, 1994a: 135; Bolton, 1995b: 347; Dorow, 1995: 62; Kohout, 2000: 207; Kohout, 2012a: 50 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Polyrhachis lysistrata: Kohout, 1994a: 135; Bolton, 1995b: 347; Dorow, 1995: 62; Kohout, 2000: 207; Kohout, 2012a: 50.

Junior synonyms

• Polyrhachis lysistrata Santschi, 1920

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Crawley, W. C. 1915b. Ants from north and south-west Australia (G. F. Hill, Rowland Turner) and Christmas Island, Straits Settlements. - Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)15:232-239.
• Crawley, W. C. 1921. New and little-known species of ants from various localities. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)7:87-97. PDF
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• 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
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