Polyrhachis phryne

Polyrhachis phryne
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini
Genus:	Polyrhachis
Subgenus:	Campomyrma
Species:	P. phryne
Binomial name
	Polyrhachis phryne; Forel, 1907 Specimen Labels
Synonyms
	Polyrhachis sempronia Forel, 1907; Polyrhachis sidnica perthensis Crawley, 1922;

Wheeler (1934) Rottnest Island: "Fourteen workers and a deiilated female from a single colony nesting under a stone near Government House (X. 21, '31)."

Photo Gallery

Polyrhachis phryne from the hills around Perth (Kalamunda), Western Australia. Photo by Farhan Bokhari, 11 July 2009.

Identification

Keys including this Species

Key to Polyrhachis of the southwestern Australian Botanical Province

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -16.98333333° to -37.75°.


North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (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.

Biology

Castes

Worker

Images from AntWeb


Syntype of PolyrhachisÂ sidnica perthensis. Worker. Specimen code casent0903305. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.


Worker. Specimen code casent0906565. Photographer Estella Ortega, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by NHMUK, London, UK.

Nomenclature

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

phryne. Polyrhachis phryne Forel, 1907a: 41 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in P. (Campomyrma): Emery, 1925b: 179. Senior synonym of sempronia: Taylor, 1989a: 26; of perthensis: Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 517.
sempronia. Polyrhachis sempronia Forel, 1907a: 39 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Combination in P. (Campomyrma): Emery, 1925b: 180. Junior synonym of phryne: Taylor, 1989a: 26.
perthensis. Polyrhachis (Campomyrma) sidnica var. perthensis Crawley, 1922c: 36 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Wheeler, W.M. 1934d: 163 (q.). Raised to species: Taylor, 1989a: 26. Junior synonym of phryne: Kohout & Taylor, 1990: 517.

Type Material

Polyrhachis phryne: Syntype, Mt. Victoria, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, museum unknown (prob. MHNG (Geneva) or HNHM (Budapest)).
Polyrhachis (Campomyrma) sidnica perthensis Crawley, 1922: Lectotype, worker, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Polyrhachis (Campomyrma) sidnica perthensis Crawley, 1922: Paralectotype, 1 worker, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Australian National Insect Collection.
Polyrhachis (Campomyrma) sidnica perthensis Crawley, 1922: Paralectotype, 8 workers, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Polyrhachis sempronia Forel, 1907: Syntype, Mt. Victoria, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, museum unknown (prob. MHNG (Geneva) or HNHM (Budapest)).

Description

References

Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 179, Combination in P. (Campomyrma))
Forel, A. 1907d. Formicides du Musée National Hongrois. Ann. Hist.-Nat. Mus. Natl. Hung. 5: 1-42 (page 41, worker described)
Heterick, B.E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 86, 1-245 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245).
Heterick, B.E. 2022. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part II: Distribution and biology. Records of the Western Australian Museum, supplement 86: 247-510 (doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2022.247-510).
Jaitrong, W., Yamane, S., Samung, Y., Noon-anant, N. 2023. The ant subgenus Campomyrma of the genus Polyrhachis Smith, 1857 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae) in Thailand and Laos, with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 5271(2), 294–312 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5271.2.5).
Kohout, R. J.; Taylor, R. W. 1990. Notes on Australian ants of the genus Polyrhachis Fr. Smith, with a synonymic list of the species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Mem. Qld. Mus. 28: 509-522 (page 517, Senior synonym of perthensis)
Taylor, R. W. 1989a. The nomenclature and distribution of some Australian ants of the genus Polyrhachis Fr Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). J. Aust. Entomol. Soc. 28: 23-27 (page 26, Senior synonym of sempronia)
Wheeler, W. M. 1934d. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. No. IX. The ants. J. R. Soc. West. Aust. 20: 137-163.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

Andersen A. N., A. Y. Yen. 1992. Canopy ant communities in the semi-arid Mallee region of North-western Victoria. Australian Journal of Zoology 40: 205-214.
Andersen A. N., T. D. Penman, N. Debas, and M. Houadria. 2009. Ant community responses to experimental fire and logging in a Eucalypt forest of south-eastern Australia. Forest Ecology and Management 258: 188-197.
Forel A. 1907. Formicides du Musée National Hongrois. Ann. Hist.-Nat. Mus. Natl. Hung. 5: 1-42.
Kohout R. J., and R. W. Taylor. 1990. Notes on Australian ants of the genus Polyrhachis Fr. Smith, with a synonymic list of the species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28: 509-522.
Taylor R. W. 1989. The nomenclature and distribution of some Australian ants of the genus Polyrhachis Fr Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 28: 23-27.
Van Ingen L. T., R. Campos, and A. N. Andersen. 2008. Ant community structure along an extended rain forest-savanna gradient in tropical Australia. Journal of Tropical Ecology 24: 445-455.
Vanderwoude C., A. N. Andersen, and A. P. N. House. 1997. Community organisation, biogeography and seasonality of ants in a open forest of south-eastern Queensland. Australian Journal of Zoology 45: 523-537.