• [Polyrhachis Shuckard, 1840e: 172. Nomen nudum.]
• Polyrhachis in Formicidae: Smith, 1858a: 58.
• Polyrhachis in Formicinae: Mayr, 1862: 652 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 6 [Formicidae].
• Polyrhachis in Camponotinae: Forel, 1878c: 367 [Camponotidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 257 [Camponotinae]; Emery, 1896e: 189 [Camponotinae].
• Polyrhachis in Camponotinae, Polyrhachidini: Ashmead, 1905c: 384.
• Polyrhachis in Camponotinae, Camponotini: Forel, 1886h: 194; Forel, 1893b: 165; Emery, 1895l: 772; Wheeler, 1910a: 144; Forel, 1912j: 89; Forel, 1917: 251; Arnold, 1924: 741.
• Polyrhachis in Formicinae, Formica genus group: Agosti, 1991: 295.
• Polyrhachis in Formicinae, Camponotini: Wheeler, 1922: 701; Emery, 1925d: 175; subsequent authors; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 19; Bolton, 1995b: 43; Bolton, 2003: 27, 122; Ward et al., 2016: 345.
• Polyrhachis as subgenus of Myrma: Wheeler, 1911c: 860; Wheeler, 1911g: 170.
• [Myrma as subgenus of Polyrhachis: Forel, 1915b: 106; Forel, 1917: 251; Wheeler, 1922: 702, 993; Emery, 1925d: 198; subsequent authors.]
• [Note: although Myrma antedates Polyrhachis, the former has been treated as a subgenus of the latter since Forel, 1917: 251 (see Hung, 1967b: 396 for history). Dorow et al., 1997: 236, proposed the precedence of Polyrhachis over Myrma and that precedence was established by the ICZN (Opinion 1919) 1999: 92.]
• Polyrhachis as genus: all authors except for Wheeler, 1911c: 860; Wheeler, 1911g: 170.
• [Polyrachis: incorrect subsequent spelling by Arnold, 1924: 741.]
• [Note: all subgenera were given as provisional junior synonyms of Polyrhachis by Brown, 1973b: 178-184. The list was repeated in Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 19, and Tang et al., 1995: 117, with all subgenera listed as junior synonyms. They reverted to subgeneric status in Bolton, 1994: 50, and Bolton, 2003: 123. The entry of Chariomyrma, Hagiomyrma and Hedomyrma under the synonymy of Polyrhachis by Taylor & Brown, 1985: 131, is not considered as confirmation as the three subgenera all range outside the Austral Region.]

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