Species Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) australis Mayr, 1870

Museums

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• Polyrhachis australis Mayr, G.L. 1870. Neue Formiciden. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 20: Abhand. 939-996 [31 Dec. 1870] [945].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMW *W, Port Mackay, QLD.
• Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) nox Donisthorpe, H. 1938. The subgenus Cyrtomyrma Forel of Polyrhachis Smith, with descriptions of new species, etc. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 1: 246-267 [249].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH *W, Mackay, QLD.
• Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) townsvillei Donisthorpe, H. 1938. The subgenus Cyrtomyrma Forel of Polyrhachis Smith, with descriptions of new species, etc. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 1: 246-267 [251].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH *W,Q, Townsville, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kohout, J., & Taylor, R.W. 1990. Notes on Australian ants of the genus Polyrahchis Fr. Smith, with a synonymic list of the species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28: 509-522 [513]
• Kohout, R.J. 1998. New synonyms and nomenclatural changes in the ant genus Polyrhachis Fr. Smith. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42: 505-531 [527]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, omnivore.

General References

Downes. M.F. 2014. Annual cycle of nest composition in the queen-dimorphic weaver ant Polyrhachis australis Mayr, 1870 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in northern Queensland. Austral Entomology

History of changes