Ponera crudelis

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 97

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6296682

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/04579277-7AE7-DDFD-9919-F89D89B0C6F6

treatment provided by

Donat

scientific name

Ponera crudelis
status

 

49. Ponera crudelis   HNS . Pl. VI. figs. 23, 24. B.M.

Worker. Length 3 1/2 lines.-Black, elongate, smooth and shining: the mandibles, clypeus, antennae and legs rufo-testaceous; apex of the abdomen pale rufo-testaceous. Head oblongovate; the clypeus with a sharp carina down the middle, the scape more or less fuscous above, the base and apex pale; the posterior margin of the head emarginate. Thorax elongate, narrowed or compressed in the middle, the apex emarginate, the lateral angles of the emargination., acute or subspinose; the apical joints of the tarsi pale. Abdomen rounded at the base, strangulated at the apex of the first segment, and tapering to an acute point at the apex; the sting exserted, half the length of the abdomen; the node of the peduncle subquadrate, rounded in front and truncate behind; the insect thinly sprinkled with short pale hairs.

Hab. Brazil; Rio (Constancia)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Ponera

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