Polyrhachis australis

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

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Polyrhachis australis Mayr, 1870 valid

Polyrhachis australis Mayr, 1870b: 945 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Kohout, 2006d: 93). Primary type locality: neotype Australia: Queensland, Cape Hillsborough NP, 20°55’S, 149°02’E, 1.vi.1996, acc. 96.2 (R.J. Kohout). Primary type depository: QMBA. Type notes: Original type data: holotype worker Australia: Queensland, Port Mackay, “from Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg” (no collector’s name); not in NHMW, presumed lost (Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 513).

Neotype designation: Kohout, 2006d: 93.
Combination in Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma): Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 513.
Junior synonym of Polyrhachis levior: Mayr, 1876: 71; Dalla Torre, 1893: 264; Emery, 1896j: 380; Emery, 1925d: 208; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 137; Taylor, 1987a: 61.
Status as species: Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 513; Bolton, 1995b: 344; Dorow, 1995: 22; Kohout, 2000: 195; Kohout, 2006d: 93.
Senior synonym of Polyrhachis doddi: Kohout, 2000: 195; Kohout, 2006d: 93.
Senior synonym of Polyrhachis nox: Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 513; Bolton, 1995b: 344; Dorow, 1995: 22; Kohout, 2000: 195; Kohout, 2006d: 93.
Senior synonym of Polyrhachis townsvillei: Kohout, 2000: 195 (in text); Kohout, 2006d: 93.

Junior synonyms

Polyrhachis doddi Donisthorpe, 1938
Polyrhachis nox Donisthorpe, 1938
Polyrhachis townsvillei Donisthorpe, 1938

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
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. 1896j. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (5)5:363-382 [pagination of separate: 761-780]. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Kohout, R. J. 2000. A review of the distribution of the Polyrhachis and Echinopla ants of the Queensland wet tropics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46:183-209. PDF
Kohout, R. J. 2006d. Review of Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) of Australia, Borneo, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands with descriptions of new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 52:87-146. PDF
Kohout, R. J.; Taylor, R. W. 1990. Notes on Australian ants of the genus Polyrhachis Fr. Smith, with a synonymic list of the species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28:509-522. PDF
Mayr, G. 1870b. Neue Formiciden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 20:939-996. PDF
Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. Journal des Museum Godeffroy 12:56-115. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.

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