Polyrhachis kubani

This species is only known from a single specimen, collected in northern Laos. Nothing is know concerning its biology.

Identification
Small, black species with faint greenish shimmer. Surface with fine, close reticulation. Almost without setae and pilosity. Head unproportionally large, broader than long. Eyes situate posterodorsally, not breaking outline of head in full-face view (Fig. 1). Clypeus margin convex, medially slightly emarginate. Mesosoma not marginate. Pronotum broad, with acute, but not spine-like anterolateral corners. Propodeal teeth small. Petiolar spines thin and strongly diverging.

The new species differs from all other species of the P. flavoflagellata group by the broad head (CI > 1), the eyes that do not break the lateral margin of head, the short scapes (SI < 0.9), the short propodeal spines, and the structure of the petiole. The petiolar spines are slender and long, and the crest between them has no additional teeth.

Distribution
Only known from Luang Namtha Province, northern Laos.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: Laos.

Nomenclature

 * . Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla) kubani Zettel & Ockermuller, 2023: 681, figs. 1-5 (w.) LAOS.

Type Material

 * Holotype (worker): Laos, Luang Namtha Province, from Nam Tha to Muang Sing, N 27°09’, E 101°19’, 900-1200 m a.s.l., 5-31.V.1997, leg. V. Kubáň, deposited in Biologiezentrum Linz, Upper Austria (labels in Fig. 2).