Polyrhachis ( Myrmatopa ) schang For. var. gracilior Karawajew, 1927 a : 11

Martynov, Alexander V. & Radchenko, Alexander G., 2016, Karawajew’s ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the National Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Zootaxa 4097 (2), pp. 244-254 : 249-250

Polyrhachis ( Myrmatopa) schang For. var. gracilior Karawajew, 1927 a: 11 , w, q, m.

Junior primary homonym of Polyrhachis furcata r. gracilior Forel, 1893: 25. Replacement name: Polyrhachis (Myrmatopa) schang For. var. amboinae Santschi, 1928: 139 .

Current status: Polyrhachis ( Myrmatopa) schang amboinae .

Type locality(-ies): “Amboina (Leitimor und Hito), 20.II. 1913 (Nr. 2501, 2503), ww, geflüg. qq, 1 Königin, mm und 2 Ergatogynen”.

Original Karawajew label(-s): “ Polyrhachis ( Myrmatopa ) / schang For. v. amboinae Sant. / (n. nom.). Amboina, Karavaev , / 2502, 2503, 2504 ”.

Material: SYNTYPES, 4 w, 2 q, 2 m (newly mounted, IN 314 / 6 / 1), 142 w, 10 q, 13 m (in alcohol, IN 314 / BAMS 1 /Karaw 7–10).

Notes. In his original description Karawajew ( 1927 a) provided the collection numbers 2501 and 2503 for the type series of this taxon, while in the single vial with alcohol material in NMNH NASU there are original Karawajew labels with collection numbers 2502, 2503 and 2504. We investigated several tens of workers, queens and males from this vial and confirm their conspecificity. We may only suppose that Karawajew did not provide all the collection numbers when describing this taxon, and we consider all the material from NMNH NASU as syntypes.