Polyrhachis dives rectispina

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

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Polyrhachis dives rectispina Karavaiev, 1927 valid

Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla) dives var. rectispina Karavaiev, 1927f: 35 (w.) INDONESIA (Ambon). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”). Primary type locality: Indonesia: Amboina (= Ambon I.), nos 2495, 2966 (W. Karawajew). Primary type depositories: NMAS, SIZK. Primary type specimen: CASENT0917194. Type notes: 1) Martynov & Radchenko, 2016: 251, cite 14 worker syntypes in NMAS (plus 900 workers in alcohol). 2) Radchenko et al., 2025: 487, cite 48 syntype workers, plus 2 non-type queens (CASENT0917195), 3 non-type males (CASENT0917196) in SIZK.

Subspecies of Polyrhachis dives: Karavaiev, 1928a: 320; Karavaiev, 1930a: 213; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 289; Bolton, 1995b: 355; Dorow, 1995: 52.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
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
Karavaiev, V. 1927f. Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet. III. Zbirnyk Prats' Zoolohichnoho Muzeyu 3:3-52 [= Trudy. Ukrains'ka Akademiya Nauk. Fizichno-Matematichnoho Viddilu 7:3-52]. PDF
Karavaiev, V. 1928a. Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet. IV. Ueber Ameisennester, hauptsächlich von Polyrhachis-Arten. Zbirnyk Prats' Zoolohichnoho Muzeyu 5:129-150 [= Trudy. Ukrains'ka Akademiya Nauk. Fizichno-Matematichnoho Viddilu 6:307-328].
Karavaiev, V. 1930a. Ameisen von den Molukken und Neuguinea. (Ergebnisse der Sunda-Expedition der Notgemeinschaft der deutschen Wissenschaft 1929/30.). Zoologischer Anzeiger 92:206-214. PDF
Martynov, A. V.; Radchenko, A. G. 2016. Karawajew's ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the National Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Zootaxa 4097(2):244-254. 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.2.6 PDF
Radchenko, A. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Esteves, F. A.; Martynova, E. V.; Bazhenova, T. N.; Lasarenko, S. N. 2025. Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 3. Formicinae. Zootaxa 5613 (3):469-499. 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.3.3 PDF

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Formicidae subfamilies Formicinae tribes Camponotini genera Polyrhachis species Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla) species Polyrhachis dives subspecies Polyrhachis dives rectispina infrasubspecies

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