Polyrhachis durbanensis Forel

Type location South Africa (Polyrhachis (Myrma) cubaensis Mayr r. durbanensis n. stirps, Forel 1914d: 262, worker & queen; raised to species by Bolton, 1973b: 327, illustrated, alitrunk and petiole only), collected at Natal, Durban, by C B Cooper - see below
Worker & queen only known (see Bolton, 1995) .

Forel's (1914d) description is at . Arnold (1924: 753) gave a translation (as a race of cubaensis), this is at . Bolton's modern description (1973b) is at .

WORKER - TL 6.7-7.3 mm, HL 1.59-1.70, HW 1.29-1.37, SL 1.64-1.70, PW 1.03-1.08
Propodeum without a transverse ridge; petiole with two pairs of well-developed spines, the dorsal pair the longer. Colour black, appendages brown and funiculi yellow-brown; All over very sparse fine greyish pubescence.

The photomontage of a type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=0910944.