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Polyrhachis (Myrmothrinax) thrinax subsp. overbecki Dorow 1995
Description
Polyrhachis (Myrmothrinax) thrinax overbecki Dorow, 1995
Material examined. None available.
Material not physically examined. Types – CASENT0910797, ANTC33058 (MHNG); FOCOL2527, FOCOL2529 (ZMHB); type queen, FOCOL2528 (ZMHB) [all as types of Polyrhachis thrinax var. nigripes].
Literature. Type – Viehmeyer (1916); Overbeck (1924) [as P. thrinax var. nigripes]. Dorow (1995).
Localities. Bukit Timah Road
Habitat/Ecology. A pasteboard nest of this subspecies was found in the twisted leaf of a shrub in a garden.
Remarks. The present species epithet is a replacement name for P. thrinax nigripes Viehmeyer, 1916 (see Dorow 1995). Type locality in Singapore.
Notes
Published as part of Hamer, Matthew T., Lee, Jonathan Hon Chung, Tse, Cheung Yau Leo, Silva, Thiago S. R. & Guénard, Benoit, 2022, Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy, pp. 1-152 in Asian Myrmecology (e 015006) (e 015006) 15 on page 64, DOI: 10.20362/am.015006, http://zenodo.org/record/15473703
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MHNG, ZMHB
- Material sample ID
- FOCOL2527, FOCOL2529
- Scientific name authorship
- Dorow
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Formicidae
- Genus
- Polyrhachis
- Species
- overbecki
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Polyrhachis (Myrmothrinax) thrinax subsp. overbecki Dorow, 1995 sec. Hamer, Lee, Tse, Silva & Guénard, 2022
References
- Dorow WHO, 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.
- Viehmeyer H, 1916. Ameisen von Singapore. Beobachtet und gesammelt von H. Overbeck. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Series A, 81 (8): 108-168.
- Overbeck H, 1924. A list of ants from Singapore and neighbouring places. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 2 (1): 25-40.