Key to Polyrhachis aculeata group species

The following worker key is based on * Kohout, R. J. 2013. A review of the Polyrhacis aculeata species-group of the subgenus Myrma Billberg (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with keys and descriptions of new species. Australian Entomologist. 40:137-171.

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 * Dorsal body surfaces smooth, highly polished, mostly glabrous, only rarely with scattered long hairs or a pile of sparse whitish pubescence in some species (aculeata-complex, in part) . . . . . 2


 * Dorsal body surfaces finely sculptured, reticulate-punctate or longitudinally striate, semi-polished or opaque with sculpture often obscured by abundant, closely appressed, silvery-grey or golden pubescence . . . . . 6