Phasmomyrmex (Myrmorhachis) paradoxus (André)

Type location Gabon (Polyrhachis paradoxa, André, 1892a: 46, worker); subspecies cupreus from Congo (Santschi, 1923e: 293, worker); junior synonym polyrhachoides (Camponotus polyrhachoides, Emery, 1898a: 227, simply as a new name for paradoxa; Emery, 1920c: 30, queen; synonymy Emery, 1925b: 58, status reversed with recognition of the genus); worker only described (Bolton, 1973b, see Bolton, 1995). Image from Emery (1925b, Plate II, 13 & 13a) .

André's (1892a) description is at . Emery's (1920c) description of the queen is at .

Santschi (1923e) noted ssp cupreus, in comparison with the type, as having a slightly narrower posterior to the head; a shorter and apparently wider pronotum; and with the pubescence on the gaster being coppery as opposed to the paler gold covering on the type.

Wheeler (1922) listed findings from Sierra Leone, Liberia (at Grand Bassa by H. Brauns), Cameroun (Mundame by Conradt, Longji by Paschen); also others from Congo and Zaïre, 2 workers and 3 queens running on firewood.

Listed from Ghana, as Phasmomyrmex polyrhachoides, by Strickland (1951a) and Room (1971), as in 9 samples of his cocoa canopy collection. Room (1971) also found a positive association with Crematogaster depressa.