Key to Polyrhachis wallacei-group species

This worker key is based on: 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.

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• Body and appendages covered with rather abundant, semierect to erect, bristle-like hairs . . . . . Polyrhachis hispida

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• Pronotal humeri produced into blunt, minute teeth; body mostly light to medium yellowish-brown . . . . . Polyrhachis wallacei

• Pronotal humeri rounded without an indication of humeral teeth; body very dark reddish-brown, with sides of mesosoma, propodeum and petiole virtually black . . . . . . Polyrhachis kazuoi