Polyrhachis latharis

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

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Polyrhachis latharis Bolton, 1973 valid

Polyrhachis latharis Bolton, 1973b: 348, figs. 49, 60 (w.q.) GHANA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Ghana: Eastern Region, Mt Atewa, 12.vii.1969, pyrethrum, sample A5/7 (D. Leston). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0903460. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 3 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens. Secondary type locality: same data as holotype but samples A4/4, A5/5, A5/7, A6/6, A6/7. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, UGLG.

Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrma): Bolton, 1973b: 348.
Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 351; Dorow, 1995: 36; Rigato, 2016: 27.

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
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

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