• [Misspelled as mayrei by Forel, 1886d: 242.]
• Bingham, 1903: 405 (q.); Karavaiev, 1927f: 46 (m.)
• Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrma): Viehmeyer, 1916a: 165.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1867a: 56 (redescription); Smith, 1871a: 318; Mayr, 1872: 140; Forel, 1879a: 117; Emery, 1887a: 232; Emery, 1888: 530; Emery, 1889: 519; André, 1892c: 47; Forel, 1893e: 29; Dalla Torre, 1893: 265; Emery, 1893h: 255; Emery, 1895m: 481; Emery, 1896j: 379 (in list); Emery, 1897: 579 (in key); Emery, 1900: 713; Emery, 1901h: 122; Bingham, 1903: 404; Forel, 1905f: 26; Forel, 1907h: 19; Forel, 1908b: 9; Forel, 1909i: 230; Forel, 1911b: 213; Forel, 1911c: 228; Forel, 1912e: 111; Forel, 1912o: 70; Forel, 1913g: 202; Forel, 1913l: 136; Wheeler, 1913f: 237; Forel, 1915a: 42; Wheeler, 1919f: 123; Wheeler, 1923c: 6; Wheeler, 1924c: 253; Crawley, 1924a: 408; Emery, 1925d: 201; Stitz, 1925c: 135; Karavaiev, 1927f: 46; Wheeler, 1927d: 11; Wheeler, 1928c: 33; Santschi, 1928h: 138; Donisthorpe, 1929a: 448; Wheeler, 1929h: 63; Karavaiev, 1930a: 213; Mukerjee, 1930: 161; Menozzi, 1930a: 5; Stärcke, 1930: 379; Wheeler, 1930k: 78; Karavaiev, 1935a: 116; Wheeler, 1937a: 24; Menozzi, 1939a: 341; Teranishi, 1940: 61, 69; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 272; Collingwood, 1970b: 382; Tang et al., 1995: 119; Tiwari, 1999: 74; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000: 363.
• Junior synonym of Polyrhachis illaudata: Donisthorpe, 1932b: 576; Donisthorpe, 1937a: 627 (in text); Donisthorpe, 1942d: 460 (in text); Donisthorpe, 1943b: 208 (in text); Donisthorpe, 1943e: 469; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 271; Bolton, 1974b: 176; Bolton, 1995b: 352; Dorow, 1995: 34; Zhou, 2001a: 197; Karmaly, 2004: 546 (in key); Terayama, 2009: 219.

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