Polyrhachis dolichocephala

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

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Polyrhachis dolichocephala Viehmeyer, 1914 junior synonym of current valid taxon Polyrhachis melpomene Emery, 1897

Polyrhachis dolichocephala Viehmeyer, 1914c: 532, fig. 5 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Rawlinson Range (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MNHU.

[Misspelled as dolichacephala by Chapman & Capco, 1951: 267.]
Combination in Polyrhachis (Dolichorhachis): Emery, 1925d: 189.
Combination in Polyrhachis (Hedomyrma): Dorow, 1995: 27.
Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 189; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 267; Bolton, 1995b: 347; Dorow, 1995: 27.
Junior synonym of Polyrhachis melpomene: Kohout, 1998: 514.

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
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Kohout, R. J. 1998. New synonyms and nomenclatural changes in the ant genus Polyrhachis Fr. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42:505-531.
Viehmeyer, H. 1914c. Papuanische Ameisen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1914:515-535. PDF

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