Protonym: Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) obsidiana
Authorship Karavaiev, 1927f: 50, fig. 21
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality INDONESIA (Ambon)
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”). Primary type locality: Indonesia: Amboina (= Ambon I.), 19.ii.1913, nos 2496, 2479, 2490, 2497 (W. Karawajew). Primary type depositories: NMAS, QMBA, SIZK.
Type notes 1) Kostyuk, 1976: 102, cites 24 worker, 17 queen syntypes in SIZK. 2) Martynov & Radchenko, 2016: 250, cite 18 worker, 9 queen syntypes in NMAS (plus 544 workers, 190 queens, 1 male in alcohol).
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Polyrhachis obsidiana Species Homonym
homonym replaced by Polyrhachis coronata Santschi, 1928
Original combination