Cyrtomyrma

This is currently a subgenus of Polyrhachis. Please see Polyrhachis for further information.

Biology
All known species are arboreal, building nests of silk and vegetation debris between the leaves and shrubs of trees. However, some species are occasionally lignicolous, using available cavities such as bamboo internodes or hollow branches, the walls of which they line with silk (Robson & Kohout, 2005). Some species (e.g. P. inducta sp. nov., P. mondoi Donisthorpe) have also been found nesting under bark on living trees.

Distribution
The known distribution of the subgenus ranges from China to India and Sri Lanka and south across Indonesia and New Guinea to the Solomon Islands and northern Australia (Kohout 2006).