• Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 183; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 137; Taylor, 1987a: 61; Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 511.
• Junior synonym of Polyrhachis delicata: Kohout, 1994a: 135; Bolton, 1995b: 352; Dorow, 1995: 62; Kohout, 2000: 207; Kohout, 2012a: 50.

Citations

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• Santschi, F. 1920a. Quelques nouveaux Camponotinae d'Indochine et Australie. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 52:565-569. PDF
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