Protonym: Polyrhachis (Aulacomyrma) mystica
Authorship Karavaiev, 1927f: 41, fig. 19
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Indomalaya
Locality INDONESIA (Java)
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Indonesia: Java, Buitenzorg (= Bogor), 20.xii.1912, no. 2323 (W. Karawajew). Primary type depositories: NMAS, QMBA, SIZK. Primary type specimens: CASENT0917280 (w.), CASENT0917281 (q.), CASENT0917282 (m.).
Type notes 1) Kostyuk, 1976: 102, cites 13 worker, 6 queen, 10 male syntypes in SIZK. 2) Martynov & Radchenko, 2016: 250, cite 4 worker, 1 queen, 1 male syntypes in NMAS (plus 208 workers, 37 queens, 12 males in alcohol). 3) Martynov & Radchenko, 2016: 250, also consider as syntypes 11 workers, 1 queen (plus 58 workers in alcohol) in NMAS, with same data but no. 2362. 4) Radchenko et al., 2025: 489, cite 9 syntype workers, 5 syntype queens, 9 syntype males in SIZK.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Polyrhachis mystica Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Polyrhachis cryptoceroides Emery, 1887
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