Polyrhachis subfossa

Identification
A member of the Polyrhachis bicolor species group.

The two bicolor-group species known from Sulawesi are distinguished as follows:


 * Distinctly bicoloured; head, mesosoma and petiole black with mandibles, antennae, legs, including coxae and gaster orange or light reddish-brow . . . . . Polyrhachis bicolor


 * Unicoloured; body black with only mandibles rusty-red and tibiae dark reddish-brown (in copal) . . . . . Polyrhachis subfossa

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Indonesia, Sulawesi.

Nomenclature

 *  subfossa. Polyrhachis subfossa Viehmeyer, 1913: 154, fig. (w.) INDONESIA (Sulawesi) (in copal). Combination in P. (Myrmhopla): Emery, 1925b: 196.

Type Material
Kohout (2008) - Holotype worker. INDONESIA, SULAWESI (in copal), SNSD.