Subgenus Polyrhachis (Polyrhachis) Smith, 1857

Museums

Regional Maps

• Polyrhachis Wheeler, W.M. 1911. Three Formicid names which have been overlooked. Science (Washington, D.C.) ns 33: 858-860 [859] (as subgenus of Myrma Billberg).

  Type species:

   Polyrhachis bihamata Drury, 1773 by subsequent designation, see Wheeler, W.M. 1911. Three Formicid names which have been overlooked. Science (Washington, D.C.) ns 33: 858-860.

  Secondary source:

   Wheeler, W.M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. II. The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 39-269 pls 2-23 [10 Feb. 1922] [257] (as subgenus of Polyrhachis); Emery, C. 1925. Hymenoptera fam. Formicidae, subfam. Formicinae. pp. 1–302 in Wytsman, P. (ed.) Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 183 pp. [181] (diagnosis of the subgenus).

Generic Combinations

• Polyrhachis (Polyrhachis) (Smith, 1857). —
  Wheeler, W.M. 1911. Three Formicid names which have been overlooked. Science (Washington, D.C.) ns 33: 858-860
  Wheeler, W.M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. II. The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 39-269 pls 2-23 [10 Feb. 1922] [257]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

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