Protonym: Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) obsidiana
Authorship Karavaiev, 1927f: 50, fig. 21
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality INDONESIA (Ambon)
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype workers, queens, males (numbers not stated, “numerous”). Primary type locality: Indonesia: Amboina (= Ambon I.), 19.ii.1913, nos 2496, 2479, 2490, 2497 (W. Karawajew). Primary type depositories: NMAS, QMBA, SIZK. Primary type specimens: CASENT0917291 (w.), CASENT0917292 (q.).
Type notes 1) Kostyuk, 1976: 102, cites 24 worker, 17 queen syntypes in SIZK. 2) Martynov & Radchenko, 2016: 250, cite 18 worker, 9 queen syntypes in NMAS (plus 544 workers, 190 queens, 1 male in alcohol). 3) Radchenko et al., 2025: 489, cite 25 syntype workers, 14 syntype queens, 9 syntype males in SIZK.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Polyrhachis obsidiana Species Homonym
homonym replaced by Polyrhachis coronata Santschi, 1928
Original combination