Species Polyrhachis (Myrmothrinax) delicata Crawley, 1915

Museums

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• Polyrhachis delicata 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 [238].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH *W, Darwin, NT.
• Polyrhachis (Myrmothrinax) lysistrata Santschi, F. 1920. Quelques nouveaux Camponotinae d'Indochine et Australie. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 52: 565-569 [569] [introduced as Polyrhachys].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BNHM W, Townsville, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kohout, J. 1994. New synonymy of three Austarlian ants. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 35: 135-136 [135]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Noctidiurnal, omnivore.

General References

Kohout, R. 2012. A review of the Australian Polyrhachis ants of the subgenera Myrma Billberg, Myrmothrynax Forel and Polyrhachis Fr. Smith, with synonymic list of the species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 56(1): 25-59 [50] (new records)

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