Polyrhachis schenckii

A ground nesting species.

Distribution
Kohout (1988) - Papua New Guinea across the Torres Strait islands to Australia, where it occurs on Cape York Peninsula, and in the Northern Territory.

This taxon was described from New Guinea.

Nomenclature

 *  schenkii. Polyrhachis schenkii Forel, 1886f: 198 (w.) NEW GUINEA. Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1968: 221 (l.). Combination in P. (Hedomyrma): Santschi, 1920a: 569; in P. (Hagiomyrma): Emery, 1925b: 185.