Polyrhachis braxa

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

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Polyrhachis braxa Bolton, 1973 valid

Polyrhachis braxa Bolton, 1973b: 333, figs. 50, 56 (w.) GHANA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Ghana: Eastern Region, CRIG, New Tafo, 4.iii.1970 (C.A. Collingwood). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0903465. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 2 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: BMNH.

Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrma): Bolton, 1973b: 333.
Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 344; Dorow, 1995: 32; Rigato, 2016: 8 (in key).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1973b. The ant genus Polyrhachis F. Smith in the Ethiopian region (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 28:283-369. PDF
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
Rigato, F. 2016. The ant genus Polyrhachis F. Smith in sub-Saharan Africa, with descriptions of ten new species. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4088:1-50. 10.11646/zootaxa.4088.1.1 PDF

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