Subgenus Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) Forel, 1915

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• Cyrtomyrma Forel, A. 1915. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(no.16): 1-119, pls 1-3 [Date published 4 Dec. 1915] [107].

  Type species:

   Formica rastellata Latreille, 1802 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Forel, A 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51: 229–253 [251]; Wheeler, W.M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VII. Keys to the genera and subgenera of ants. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (45): 631-710 [701]; Emery, C. 1925. Hymenoptera fam. Formicidae, subfam. Formicinae. pp. 1–302 in Wytsman, P. (ed.) Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 183 pp. [207].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, NT, Qld: Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NT, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Northern Kimberley (NK) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU)

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