Polyrhachis humerosa

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Polyrhachis humerosa Emery, 1921 junior synonym of current valid taxon Polyrhachis ornata Mayr, 1876

Polyrhachis (Hedomyrma) humerosa Emery, 1921e: 18 (w.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Australia: South Australia, Adelaide (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0905573. Type notes: Kohout, 1988c: 435, suggests that the type locality is correctly Mt Adelaide in Queensland, not Adelaide in South Australia.

Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 190; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 136; Taylor, 1987a: 60.
Junior synonym of Polyrhachis ornata: Kohout, 1988c: 435; Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 512; Bolton, 1995b: 350; Dorow, 1995: 28; Kohout, 2000: 203.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dorow, W. H. O. 1995. Revision of the ant genus Polyrhachis Smith, 1857 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) on subgenus level with keys, checklist of species and bibliography. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 185:1-113. PDF
Emery, C. 1921e. Le genre Polyrhachis. Classification; espèces nouvelles ou critiques. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 54:17-25. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Kohout, R. J. 1988c. Nomenclatural changes and new Australian records in the ant genus Polyrhachis Fr. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25:429-438. PDF
Kohout, R. J. 2000. A review of the distribution of the Polyrhachis and Echinopla ants of the Queensland wet tropics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46:183-209. PDF
Kohout, R. J.; Taylor, R. W. 1990. Notes on Australian ants of the genus Polyrhachis Fr. Smith, with a synonymic list of the species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28:509-522. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.

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