Species Polyrhachis (Chariomyrma) gab Forel, 1880

Museums

Regional Maps

• Polyrhachis guerini gab Forel, A. 1880. Études myrmécologiques en 1879. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 16: 53-128 [116 pl. 1].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) possibly in GMNH, Australia.
• Polyrhachis comata Crawley, W.C. 1915. Ants from north and south-west Australia (G.F. Hill, Rowland Turner) and Christmas Island, Straits Settlements. Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 232-239 [237] [non Polyrhachis bicolor comata Emery, 1911].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH *W, Stapleton, NT.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bolton, B. 1974. New synonymy and a new name in the ant genus Polyrhachis F. Smith (Hym., Formicidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 109: 172-180 [173]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, omnivore, open forest, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Nest in soil.

History of changes