Polyrhachis froggatti

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

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Polyrhachis froggatti Forel, 1910 junior synonym of current valid taxon Polyrhachis hexacantha (Erichson, 1842)

Polyrhachis froggatti Forel, 1910b: 89 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: New South Wales, Bombala (W.W. Froggatt). Primary type depositories: ANIC, MHNG. Type notes: Taylor, 1989a: 24, cites 1 worker syntype in ANIC.

Combination in Polyrhachis (Campomyrma): Emery, 1925d: 179.
Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 179; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 134; Taylor, 1987a: 60.
Junior synonym of Polyrhachis hexacantha: Taylor, 1989a: 24; Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 511; Bolton, 1995b: 348; Dorow, 1995: 15.

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. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. 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. 1989a. The nomenclature and distribution of some Australian ants of the genus Polyrhachis Fr Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 28:23-27. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.

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