Protonym: Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) obsidiana
Authorship Karavaiev, 1927f: 50, fig. 21
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality INDONESIA (Ambon I.)
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”). Primary type locality: Indonesia: Amboina (= Ambon I.), 19.ii.1913, no. 2496 (W. Karawajew). Primary type depository: QMBA, SIZK.
Type notes Karavaiev, 1927f also mentions worker, queen and male specimens with the same data but nos 2479, 2490, 2497; it is not certain if these should also be regarded as syntypes.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Polyrhachis obsidiana Species Homonym
homonym replaced by Polyrhachis coronata Santschi, 1928
Original combination