• Donisthorpe, 1937a: 627 (q.); Kohriba, 1963: 200 (l.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1970b: 649 (l.); Hung, 1970: 29 (m.)
• Combination in Myrma (Polyrhachis): Wheeler, 1911c: 860.
• Combination in Polyrhachis (Polyrhachis): Emery, 1925d: 182.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1879: 652 (redescription); Forel, 1879a: 122; Dalla Torre, 1893: 264; Emery, 1896j: 380 (in list); Forel, 1900h: 270; Forel, 1901m: 78; Wheeler, 1906h: 327 (redescription); Yano, 1910a: 422; Wheeler, 1921c: 546; Emery, 1925d: 182; Santschi, 1925f: 90; Wheeler, 1929g: 10; Wheeler, 1929h: 63; Wheeler, 1930b: 105; Wheeler, 1930k: 77; Stitz, 1934: 5; Donisthorpe, 1937a: 627; Teranishi, 1940: 26, 38, 61, 69; Eidmann, 1941a: 23; Azuma, 1951: 88; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 304; Azuma, 1953: 5; Kohriba, 1963: 200; Hung, 1970: 28 (redescription); Collingwood, 1976a: 307; Azuma, 1977a: 116; Onoyama, 1980a: 201; Wang & Wu, 1991: 596 (in key); Morisita et al., 1991: 46; Wang, 1992: 682; Wu & Wang, 1992c: 1317; Bolton, 1995b: 351; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 161; Tang et al., 1995: 119; Dorow, 1995: 64; Zhou & Zheng, 1997: 274 (in key); Zhou, 2001a: 191; Imai et al., 2003: 33; Lin & Wu, 2003: 61; Radchenko, 2005b: 175; Zhou, 2006: 587; Terayama, 2009: 219 (in key); Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 36; Kohout, 2014: 28; Wong & Guénard, 2020: 36 (redescription).

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