Polyrhachis volkarti Forel

Type location Zaïre (Polyrhachis revoili st volkarti, Forel, 1916: 453, queen), junior synonym kohli (Forel, 1916: 454, worker & queen; Bolton, 1973b), holotype female and syntype worker plus female, all from Kinshasa (H. Kohl; note two separate descriptions by Forel, Bolton (1973b) opted for volkarti as the senior name. Although the choice is correct in a sense of the strain volkarti being printed on the page immediately ahead of the species kohli, it is the latter which has a full description and, as it was dedicated to the finder (of both) M. Kohl, Bolton's choice of the senior name is unfortunate .

Forel's (1916) descriptions are at and . Bolton's modern description (1973b) is at .

WORKER - TL 5.9 mm, HL 1.37, HW 1.00, SL 1.81, PW 0.89; separable by narrow build, truncate clypeal lobe, lack of a metanotal groove and presence of a pair of propodeal spines (Bolton, 1973b: 341, illustrated, full face and alitrunk profile).