Polyrhachis spitteleri

Identification
The A member of the monista group species. with hardly impressed promesonotal suture and a tubercoliform prominence between the propodeal spines.

I assign to this species a gyne from Central African Rep. It has a weak median prominence between the long propodeal spines as reported for the worker caste (Bolton, 1973). The dorsum of mesosoma is mostly longitudinally rugulose with reticulate-punctate ground sculpture. The remaining of the body is more or less strongly reticulate-punctate and subopaque; mandibles, clypeus and gaster are superficially sculptured and shining.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana.

Nomenclature

 *  spitteleri. Polyrhachis (Myrma) spitelleri Forel, 1916: 450, fig. 6 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. Combination in P. (Pseudocyrtomyrma): Emery, 1925b: 207. See also: Bolton, 1973b: 344.

Worker
Rigato (2016) - HL 1.42, HW 1.30, CI 92, SL 1.43, SI 110, FW 0.55, FI 42, ScW 1.40, MnL 1.65, WL 2.24, HTL 1.68.