Extant: 1 valid subspecies
Polyrhachis laevissimus Smith, 1858a PDF: 64, pl. 4, fig. 42 (w.) MYANMAR. Indomalaya. AntCat AntWiki HOLTaxonomic history
[Misspelled as levissima by Roger, 1863b PDF: 7, Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 264, and others.].Mayr, 1879 PDF: 651 (q.); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 402 (m.).Combination in Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma): Wheeler, 1919f PDF: 137.Status as species: Roger, 1863b PDF: 7; Mayr, 1863a PDF: 445; Smith, 1871a PDF: 312; Smith, 1873: viii; Mayr, 1879 PDF: 651; Forel, 1885b PDF: 176; Emery, 1887a PDF: 240; Emery, 1889: 518; Rothney, 1889 PDF: 351; André, 1892c PDF: 47; Forel, 1893e PDF: 30; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 264; Emery, 1895m: 483; Emery, 1896j PDF: 380 (in list); Emery, 1900: 721; Rothney, 1903: 99; Bingham, 1903 PDF: 402; Forel, 1903f PDF: 409; Forel, 1905f PDF: 26; Santschi, 1910h PDF: 284 (in key); Forel, 1911f PDF: 391; Forel, 1913l PDF: 139; Wheeler, 1913f PDF: 237; Viehmeyer, 1914b PDF: 51 (in key); Viehmeyer, 1916a PDF: 166; Wheeler, 1919f PDF: 137; Santschi, 1920h PDF: 175; Santschi, 1924c PDF: 115; Emery, 1925d PDF: 207; Stitz, 1925c PDF: 136; Mukerjee & Ribeiro, 1925 PDF: 209; Karavaiev, 1927f PDF: 51; Karavaiev, 1928a: 324; Santschi, 1928h PDF: 134; Donisthorpe, 1938c: 252 (redescription); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 264; Bolton, 1995b: 351; Dorow, 1995 PDF: 23; Mathew & Tiwari, 2000 PDF: 363; Xu, 2002b: 523 (in key); Karmaly, 2004 PDF: 545 (in key); Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005 PDF: 39; Kohout, 2006d PDF: 113; Mohanraj et al., 2010 PDF: 7; Pfeiffer et al., 2011 PDF: 42; Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 31; Jaitrong et al., 2016 PDF: 32.Senior synonym of Polyrhachis globularia: Mayr, 1879 PDF: 651; Forel, 1885b PDF: 176; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 264; Forel, 1893e PDF: 30; Emery, 1896j PDF: 380; Wheeler, 1919f PDF: 137; Emery, 1925d PDF: 207; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 264, 305; Bolton, 1995b: 351; Dorow, 1995 PDF: 23.
