Polyrhachis cubaensis Mayr
Listing as amended by
Rigato (2016: 13)
  Type location South
Africa (Polyrhachis cubaensis
n. sp., Mayr, 1862: 686, queen, not worker as wings described; original
location erroneously
given as Cuba, hence the name, corrected by Mayr, 1893: 195; Bolton,
1973b: 325) collected at Port
Natal,
Durban - queen see below.
Worker and queen only known (see
Bolton, 1995)  .
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Mayr's (1862) description is at  . Arnold (1924: 752) gave a translation,
this is at  . Bolton's modern
description (1973b) is at . Rigato's (2016) revision is at 
WORKER - TL 6.4-7.5 mm, HL 1.77-1.85, HW 1.59-1.67, SL
1.75-1.88, PW 1.33-1.41
Transverse ridge on propodeum raised medially into a small tooth or
tubercle; propodeal spines directed upwards and upcurved. Colour black,
appendages brown and funiculi yellow-brown.
The only specimen sighted
by Bolton (1973b) was that of Arnold (1924). In his translation, Arnold
did not mention the wings and did not mention seeing any specimens.
Bolton misquoted Arnold (1924: 753) who noted under race gallicola (now under Polyrhachis spinicola) was
found at Delagoa, Dr. Liengmei in hollow stem galls.
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 The
photomontage of a type queen is collated
from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=0915810.
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Polyrhachis cubaensis Mayr
Listing as in Bolton (1973b)
Type location South
Africa (Polyrhachis cubaensis
n. sp., Mayr, 1862: 686, worker; original location erroneously
given as Cuba, hence the name, corrected by Mayr, 1893: 195; Bolton,
1973b: 325, not illustrated, worker & queen) collected at Port
Natal,
Durban
junior synonyms
gerstaeckeri (Polyrhachis
Gerstaeckeri n. sp., Forel, 1886f: 197,
worker) from Tanzania, Zanzibar, Hildebrandt - see below
striolatorugosa (Polyrhachis
cubaensis Mayr nov. var. striolato-rugosa,
Mayr, 1893:
195, worker) from Tanzania, Zanzibar - no images on Antweb
(December 2014)
wilmsi (Polyrhachis
cubaensis Mayr subsp. wilmsi
n. subsp., Forel, 1910b:
30, worker) from Mozambique, Lobombo Borges, Dr F Wilms - no
images on Antweb (December 2014)
Worker and queen only known (see
Bolton, 1995) .
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