Polyrhachis rastellata torricelliana

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

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Polyrhachis rastellata torricelliana Viehmeyer, 1912 junior synonym of current valid taxon Polyrhachis euryala Smith, 1863

Polyrhachis rastellata var. torricelliana Viehmeyer, 1912b: 9, fig. 11 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 5 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea (“Deutsch Neuguinea”): Torricelli Mts, 17-18.ix.1909 (O. Schlaginhaufen). Primary type depositories: MNHU, SMTD.

Subspecies of Polyrhachis rastellata: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 266 (error).
Junior synonym of Polyrhachis euryala: Viehmeyer, 1914b: 50; Emery, 1925d: 208; Bolton, 1995b: 358; Dorow, 1995: 22; Kohout, 2006d: 125; Kohout, 2009: 44.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. 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. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. 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. 2009. A new species and nomenclatural changes in the subgenus Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) Forel. Australian Entomologist 36:37-48. PDF
Viehmeyer, H. 1912b. Ameisen aus Deutsch Neuguinea gesammelt von Dr. O. Schlaginhaufen. Nebst einem Verzeichnisse der papuanischen Arten. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologische-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 14:1-26. PDF
Viehmeyer, H. 1914b ("1913"). Neue und unvollständig bekannte Ameisen der alten Welt. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A)79(12):24-60. PDF

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