Polyrhachis cleophanes

Smith, F., 1861, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the Islands of Ceram, Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 6, pp. 36-48 : 41

publication ID

2596

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:478E0DB4-21A2-4A50-B59D-774B53696A70

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6295563

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/538D7AD0-452D-1B16-8C8B-FB879865CBD7

treatment provided by

Christiana

scientific name

Polyrhachis cleophanes
status

 

16. Polyrhachis cleophanes View in CoL   HNS .

P. niger, pube argentea vestitus; capite thoraceque rude punctatis, spinis acutis antice et postice armatis; petioli squamula bispinosa; femoribus basi ferrugineis.

Worker. Length 3 1 / 4 lines. Black, the abdomen shining; head and thorax coarsely and closely punctured, rugose, and covered with silvery pubescent pile; the prominence on the front of the head, under the sides of which the antennae are inserted, very much elevated; the eyes very prominent; the spines on the thorax in front short, divergent, stout, and acute; those on the metathorax more slender, acute, and curved backwards; the node of the peduncle with acute spines, which curve backwards over the base of the abdomen; the base of the femora more or less ferruginous, sometimes totally black. (Pl. I. fig. 14.)

Hab. Celebes (Tondano).

This is very probably the worker of P. Vibidia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Polyrhachis

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