• Lectotype designation: Kohout, 2010: 192.
• Karavaiev, 1927f: 25 (q.m.)
• Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla): Emery, 1925d: 191.
• Subspecies of Polyrhachis sexspinosa: Dalla Torre, 1893: 269; Emery, 1896j: 381 (in list); Emery, 1897: 591; Viehmeyer, 1914a: 115.
• Junior synonym of Polyrhachis sexspinosa: Bolton, 1975c: 12.
• Status as species: Emery, 1911g: 259; Emery, 1925d: 191; Karavaiev, 1927f: 25; Karavaiev, 1928a: 313; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 295; Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 518; Bolton, 1995b: 355; Dorow, 1995: 59; Kohout, 2010: 192 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Polyrhachis sexspinosa reclinata

Citations

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• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
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• Emery, C. 1897. Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia orientale. XVIII. Formiche raccolte nella Nuova Guinea dal Dott. Lamberto Loria. Dummy reference. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 38[=(2)18]:546-594.
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• Viehmeyer, H. 1914a. Ameisen aus Perak, Bali und Ceram (Hym.) (Freiburger Molukken-Expedition), gesammelt von E. Streesemann. Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 3:112-116. PDF