Polyrhachis sexspinosa sericea

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

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Polyrhachis sexspinosa sericea Karavaiev, 1927 junior synonym of current valid taxon Polyrhachis sexspinosa (Latreille, 1802)

Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla) sexspinosa var. sericea Karavaiev, 1927f: 26, fig. 13 (w.q.m.) INDONESIA (Aru Is). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Indonesia: Aru Is., Wammar I., 24.iii.1913, no. 2642 (W. Karawajew). Primary type depositories: NMAS, SIZK. Primary type specimens: CASENT0917271 (w.), CASENT0917272 (q.), CASENT0917273 (m.). Type notes: 1) Martynov & Radchenko, 2016: 251, cite 6 worker, 1 queen syntypes in NMAS (plus 27 workers in alcohol). 2) Radchenko et al., 2025: 491, cite 1 syntype worker, 3 syntype queens, 1 syntype male in SIZK.

[Also described as new by Karavaiev, 1928a: 316.]
Subspecies of Polyrhachis sexspinosa: Santschi, 1932d: 20; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 297.
Junior synonym of Polyrhachis sexspinosa: Bolton, 1975c: 12; Bolton, 1995b: 356; Dorow, 1995: 60.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1975c. The sexspinosa-group of the ant genus Polyrhachis F. Smith (Hym. Formicidae). Journal of Entomology. Series B 44:1-14. PDF
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].
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
Santschi, F. 1932d. Résultats scientifiques du voyage aux Indes orientales néerlandaises de LL. AA. RR. le Prince et la Princesse Léopold de Belgique. Hymenoptera. Formicidae. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique (2)4:11-29.

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Formicidae subfamilies Formicinae tribes Camponotini genera Polyrhachis species Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla) species Polyrhachis sexspinosa subspecies Polyrhachis sexspinosa sericea infrasubspecies

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