Polyrhachis cuspidatus

Smith, F., 1857, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2, pp. 42-88 : 63

publication ID

2588

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6297604

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scientific name

Polyrhachis cuspidatus
status

 

16. Polyrhachis cuspidatus   HNS .

P. niger; prothorace metathoraceque medio elevatis et bispinosis; femoribus abdominisque basi ferrugineis.

Worker. Length 2 1/2 lines. Black: head subovate, not narrowed behind; the base of the scape, the apex of the flagellum, and the tips of the mandibles, ferruginous. Thorax slightly compressed; the prothorax with an elevation in the middle which terminates above in two divergent spines; there is also a similar elevation, spined above on each side, on the metathorax; the coxae, femora, and apical joints of the tarsi, ferruginous. Abdomen ferruginous at the base; the scale quadrate, deeply notched above.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Polyrhachis

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