• Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrma): Emery, 1925d: 204.
• Subspecies of Polyrhachis punctillata: Bingham, 1903: 410.
• Junior synonym of Polyrhachis punctillata: Tiwari, 1999: 77 (error).
• Status as species: Forel, 1895f: 456; Emery, 1896j: 379 (in list); Emery, 1925d: 204; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 278; Bolton, 1995b: 357; Dorow, 1995: 40; Zhou & Zheng, 1997: 274 (in key); Zhou, 2001a: 196; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 37; Bharti et al., 2016: 32.

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