• Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1948d: 603; Donisthorpe, 1949b: 502; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 288; Bolton, 1995b: 347; Dorow, 1995: 56.
• Junior synonym of Polyrhachis mucronata: Kohout, 2010: 1832.

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1947e. Some new ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)14:183-197. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1948d. A third instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)14:589-604. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1949b ("1948"). A fifth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1:487-506. PDF
• 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
• Kohout, R. J. 2010. A review of the Australian Polyrhachis ants of the subgenera Myrmhopla Forel and Hirtomyrma subgen. nov. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 55:167-204. PDF