Polyrhachis phryne

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

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Polyrhachis phryne Forel, 1907 valid

Polyrhachis phryne Forel, 1907d: 41 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Australia: New South Wales, Blue Mts, Mt Victoria, 1901 (L. Biró). Primary type depository: MHNG (perhaps also HNHM). Type notes: No indication of number of specimens is given.

Combination in Polyrhachis (Campomyrma): Emery, 1925d: 179.
Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 179; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 138; Taylor, 1987a: 61; Taylor, 1989a: 26; Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 517; Bolton, 1995b: 354; Dorow, 1995: 15; Heterick, 2009: 108.
Senior synonym of Polyrhachis perthensis: Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 517; Bolton, 1995b: 354; Dorow, 1995: 15.
Senior synonym of Polyrhachis sempronia: Taylor, 1989a: 26; Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 512; Bolton, 1995b: 354; Dorow, 1995: 15.

Junior synonyms

Polyrhachis perthensis Crawley, 1922
Obsolete combination(s): Polyrhachis sidnica perthensis
Polyrhachis sempronia Forel, 1907

Citations

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. 1907d. Formicides du Musée National Hongrois. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 5:1-42. PDF
Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. 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
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. 1989a. The nomenclature and distribution of some Australian ants of the genus Polyrhachis Fr Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 28:23-27. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.

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