Taxonomic history
[Misspelled as ithonius by Donisthorpe, 1943e PDF: 471.].Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrma): Emery, 1925d PDF: 202.Subspecies of Polyrhachis relucens: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 268; Emery, 1893g PDF: 228; Emery, 1896j PDF: 379 (in list); Emery, 1897: 579 (in key); Emery, 1898a PDF: 229; Stitz, 1911a PDF: 375; Emery, 1925d PDF: 202; Santschi, 1932d: 20; Donisthorpe, 1932c PDF: 460; Wheeler, 1934a PDF: 179; Wheeler, 1935g: 47; Donisthorpe, 1943e PDF: 471; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 276.Status as species: Smith, 1863a PDF: 13; Roger, 1863b PDF: 7; Mayr, 1863a PDF: 445; Smith, 1865a PDF: 68; Smith, 1871a PDF: 315; Bolton, 1974b PDF: 177; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 136; Taylor, 1987a PDF: 60; Bolton, 1995b: 350; Dorow, 1995 PDF: 35; Kohout, 2008a PDF: 275; Sarnat et al., 2013 PDF: 70.Senior synonym of Polyrhachis chaonia: Bolton, 1974b PDF: 177; Bolton, 1995b: 345; Kohout, 2008a PDF: 271.Material of the unavailable name Polyrhachis relucens ithonus silvatica referred here by Dorow, 1995 PDF: 35.
