Polyrhachis aequalis species-group

The species in this group are members of the subgenus Myrmothrinax.

Species

• Polyrhachis aequalis
• Polyrhachis deceptor
• Polyrhachis imitator
• Polyrhachis javanica
• Polyrhachis incognita
• Polyrhachis trispinosa

Identification

Key to Sulawesi Polyrhachis aequalis-group species

Notes

The subgenus Myrmothrinax is divided into two species-groups, based on the most characteristic feature in the workers - the relative lengths of the petiolar spines. The aequalis-group includes species with the petiolar spines more-or-less subequal or with the middle spine shorter than the lateral pair. The thrinax-group includes those species with a distinctly elongated middle spine.

Related Pages

• Polyrhachis
• subgenus Myrmothrinax

References

• Kohout, R.J. 2008a. A review of the Polyrhachis ants of Sulawesi with keys and descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 52:255-317.