Polyrhachis parabiotica species-group

The species in this group are members of the subgenus Myrma.

Species

 * Polyrhachis chapmani
 * Polyrhachis empesoi
 * Polyrhachis parabiotica
 * Polyrhachis paracamponota

Identification
Key to Polyrhachis parabiotica-group species

Worker
The Polyrhachis parabiotica species group, here established, is named after the name-bearing species P. parabiotica Chapman. Chapman ( 1963) failed to give the diagnostic characters of his newly established subgenus Anoplomyrma, but they can be deduced from the description of P. parabiotica, as follows: pronotum armed with well developed. anteriorly directed spines; mesosoma convex with the mesonotum virtually immarginate (except in the new species described below, where poorly developed obtuse margins are evident under certain angles of illumination); propodeum totally immarginate laterally and posteriorly, with no propodeal teeth or tubercles; petiole scale-like, with dorsal margin more-or-less rounded or emarginate medially, laterally delimited by a blunt angle. The characters of the P. parabioticta group are essentially those of Anoplomyrma, except that the pronotal spines may be reduced to short humeral teeth as in Polyrhachis paracamponota.

Related Pages

 * Polyrhachis
 * subgenus Myrma