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.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Kohout, R. J. 2008. A review of the Polyrhachis ants of Sulawesi with keys and descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 52:255-317.
 * Viehmeyer H. 1913. Ameisen aus dem Kopal von Celebes. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 74: 141-155.
 * Viehmeyer H. 1914. Neue und unvollständig bekannte Ameisen der alten Welt. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A)79(12): 24-60.