Polyrhachis dives rectispina

Polyrhachis dives rectispina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Polyrhachis
Subgenus:	Myrmhopla
Species:	P. dives
Subspecies:	P. dives rectispina
Trinomial name
Polyrhachis dives rectispina Karavaiev, 1927

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Indonesia (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.

Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• rectispina. Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla) dives var. rectispina Karavaiev, 1927e: 35 (w.) INDONESIA (Ambon I.).

The following notes on V.A. Karavaiev type specimens have been provided by Martynov & Radchenko (2016) based on material held in the Institute of Zoology, Ukrainian Academy of Science:

Type locality(-ies): “Amboina (Nr. 2495 und 2966), zahlreiche ww aus Nestern”.

Original Karawajew label(-s): “Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla) / dives Sm. v. rectispina / Karavaev, typus. / Amboina, 2462. Karavaev”; “Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla) / dives Sm. v. rectispina / Karavaev, typus. / Amboina, 2462. Karavaev” and “Polyrhachis / 2462. Amboina”; “Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla) / dives Sm. var. rectispina / Karavaev, typus. / Amboina, Kara- / vaiум, 2462”.

Material: SYNTYPES, 14 w (newly mounted, IN 314/6/2), 900 w (in alcohol, IN 314/BAMS1/Karaw21, 32–35, 39).

Notes. Karawajew (1927a) recorded as the type series of var. rectispina two nest samples with collecting numbers 2495 and 2966 sampled in Amboina (Indonesia). At the same time (loc. cit.) he determined as P. dives F. Smith workers and queens collected in Java (Tjibodas) with the collecting number 2966; the latter material (workers and queens) is preserved in the Karawajew collection at SIZK. Also in the SIZK collection there are 34 workers with the original Karawajew labels “Amboina, Karawajew, 2462”, “Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla) dives v. rectispina Karaw. typus” that corresponds to the label data from the collection of NMNH NASU. We suppose that in the original publication the number 2966 for the type series of var. rectispina was given erroneously and really should be 2462.

References

• Karavaiev, V. 1927f. Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet. III. Zb. Prats Zool. Muz. 3:3-52 [= Tr. Ukr. Akad. Nauk Fiz.-Mat. Vidd. 7:3-52]. (page 35, worker described)
• Latumahina, F., Borovanska, M., Musyafa, Sumardi, Susetya Putra, N., Janda, M. 2015. Ants of Ambon Island – diversity survey and checklist. ZooKeys 472, 43–57 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.472.8441).
• [[Media:Martynov, A.V., Radchenko, A.G. 2016. Karawajew's ant type specimens in the National Museum.pdf|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): 2*Radchenko, A.G., Fisher, B.L., Esteves, F.A., Martynova, E.V., Bazhenova, T.N., Lasarenko, S.N. 2023. Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 1. Dorylinae, Poneromorpha and Pseudomyrmecinae. Zootaxa, 5244(1), 1–32 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5244.1.1).
• Wong, T.L., Guénard, B. 2020. Review of ants from the genus Polyrhachis Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) in Hong Kong and Macau, with notes on their natural history. Asian Myrmecology 13: e013001 (doi:10.20362/am.013001).

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