• [Misspelled as Polyrhachis javana by Emery, 1887a: 222; Emery, 1893i: 269; Forel, 1893e: 19 (in key); Emery, 1900: 710; Emery, 1901i: 568; Bingham, 1903: 411; Forel, 1909i: 230; Wheeler, 1909d: 343.]
• [Note: as all these Polyrhachis javana entries are subsequent misspellings they do not enter into homonymy.]
• Emery, 1887a: 222 (q.); Karavaiev, 1927f: 13 (m.)
• Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrmothrinax): Wheeler, 1919f: 127.
• Subspecies of Polyrhachis thrinax: Emery, 1887a: 222; Dalla Torre, 1893: 270; Emery, 1893i: 269; Emery, 1896j: 378 (in list); Emery, 1900: 710; Emery, 1901i: 568; Bingham, 1903: 411; Forel, 1909i: 230; Wheeler, 1909d: 343; Wheeler, 1919f: 127; Crawley, 1923a: 31; Crawley, 1924a: 408; Emery, 1925d: 184; Karavaiev, 1927f: 13; Karavaiev, 1928a: 313; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 302; Baltazar, 1966: 284; Bolton, 1995b: 351; Dorow, 1995: 63; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 42; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020: 67.
• Status as species: Kohout, 1998: 510.

Obsolete combinations

• Polyrhachis thrinax javanica

Citations

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