| Authorship | Stitz, 1911a: 378 | 
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| Forms | w. | 
| Bioregion | Australasia | 
| Locality | NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea) | 
| Primary type information | Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea (“New Guinea”): Oertzen Mts (Lauterbach). Primary type depository: MNHU. Primary type specimen. FOCOL2598. | 
| Polyrhachis hostilis arcuata | Subspecies | Homonym homonym replaced by Polyrhachis hostilis circumflexa Santschi, 1916 | Original combination |