Polyrhachis tubifex

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

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Polyrhachis tubifex Karavaiev, 1926 valid

Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla) tubifex Karavaiev, 1926a: 144 (w.q.m.) INDONESIA (Java). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated, “3 nests”). Primary type locality: Indonesia: Java, Buitenzorg (= Bogor), Botanical Garden, 26.xii.1912, no. 2356 (W. Karawajew). Primary type depositories: NMAS, SIZK. Primary type specimens: CASENT0917277 (w.), CASENT0917278 (q.), CASENT0917279 (m.). Type notes: 1) Kostyuk, 1976: 103, cites 20 worker, 10 queen, 1 male syntypes in SIZK. 2) Martynov & Radchenko, 2016: 252, cite 8 worker, 3 queen, 1 male syntypes in NMAS (plus 169 workers, 33 queens, 1 male in alcohol). 3) Type data in part from Karavaiev, 1927f: 33. 4) Radchenko et al., 2025: 492, cite 16 syntype workers, 9 syntype queens, 1 syntype male in SIZK.

[Also described as new by Karavaiev, 1927f: 31.]
Status as species: Karavaiev, 1928a: 318; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 299; Bolton, 1995b: 358; Dorow, 1995: 11 (in key), 55; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 15.

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. 1926a. Über den Nestbau von Polyrhachis (subg. Myrmhopla) tubifex sp. n. (Fam. Formicidae). Biologisches Zentralblatt 46:143-145. 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].
Kostyuk, Yu. A. 1976. Katalog typov murav’ev kollektsii V.A. Karavaeva khranyashiesya v Institute Zoologii Akademii Nauk Ukrainskoi SSR (chast’ 1). Sbornik Trudov Zoologicheskogo Muzeya (Kiev) 36:91-106.
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
Pfeiffer, M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58. 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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