• Lectotype designation: Kohout, 1988b: 419.
• Karavaiev, 1927f: 12 (q.)
• Combination in Polyrhachis (Polyrhachis): Emery, 1925d: 182.
• Subspecies of Polyrhachis bellicosa: Emery, 1901i: 569; Viehmeyer, 1913: 155; Emery, 1925d: 182; Karavaiev, 1927f: 12; Karavaiev, 1930a: 213; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 303.
• Junior synonym of Polyrhachis bellicosa: Hung, 1970: 5.
• Status as species: Kohout, 1988b: 419; Bolton, 1995b: 348; Dorow, 1995: 64; Kohout, 2008a: 315; Kohout, 2014: 14 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Polyrhachis bellicosa erosispina

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
• 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
• Emery, C. 1900. Formiche raccolte da Elio Modigliani in Sumatra, Engano e Mentawei. Dummy reference. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 40[=(2)20]:661-722.
• Emery, C. 1901i. Formiciden von Celebes. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 14:565-580. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Hung, A. C. F. 1970. A revision of ants of the subgenus Polyrhachis Fr. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Oriental Insects 4:1-36. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1927f. Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet. III. Zbirnyk Prats' Zoolohichnoho Muzeyu 3:3-52 [= Trudy. Ukrains'ka Akademiya Nauk. Fizichno-Matematichnoho Viddilu 7:3-52]. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1930a. Ameisen von den Molukken und Neuguinea. (Ergebnisse der Sunda-Expedition der Notgemeinschaft der deutschen Wissenschaft 1929/30.). Zoologischer Anzeiger 92:206-214. PDF
• Kohout, R. J. 1988b. A new species of Polyrhachis (Polyrhachis) from Papua New Guinea with a review of the New Guinean and Australian species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25:417-427. PDF
• Kohout, R. J. 2008a. A review of the Polyrhachis ants of Sulawesi with keys and descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 52:255-317. PDF
• Kohout, R. J. 2014. A review of the subgenus Polyrhachis (Polyrhachis) Fr. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) with keys and description of a new species. Asian Myrmecology 6:1-31. PDF
• Viehmeyer, H. 1913. Ameisen aus dem Kopal von Celebes. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 74:141-155. PDF