Polyrhachis alexisi

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Polyrhachis alexisi Forel, 1916 valid

Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) alexisi Forel, 1916: 455, fig. 7 (w.q.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Congo”): (no further data) (H. Kohl). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0910953.

Combination in Polyrhachis (Pseudocyrtomyrma): Emery, 1925d: 206.
Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrma): Bolton, 1973b: 346.
Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 993; Emery, 1925d: 206; Santschi, 1939c: 12; Bolton, 1973b: 346 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 343; Dorow, 1995: 31; Rigato, 2016: 10.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1973b. The ant genus Polyrhachis F. Smith in the Ethiopian region (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 28:283-369. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dorow, W. H. O. 1995. Revision of the ant genus Polyrhachis Smith, 1857 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) on subgenus level with keys, checklist of species and bibliography. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 185:1-113. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1916. Fourmis du Congo et d'autres provenances récoltées par MM. Hermann Kohl, Luja, Mayné, etc. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 24:397-460. PDF
Rigato, F. 2016. The ant genus Polyrhachis F. Smith in sub-Saharan Africa, with descriptions of ten new species. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4088:1-50. 10.11646/zootaxa.4088.1.1 PDF
Santschi, F. 1939c. Trois notes sur quelques fourmis du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 15(14):1-15. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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