Polyrhachis constructor

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 : 60

publication ID

2588

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6297580

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Polyrhachis constructor
status

 

5. Polyrhachis constructor View in CoL   HNS .

P. niger; thorace ovato, spinis duabus minutis antice armato; abdominis squamula spinis duabus armata.

Female. Length 3 1/2 lines. Black: finely rugose; the palpi pale testaceous; the mandibles obscurely rufo-piceous; the apex of the antennae pale rufo-testaceous. Thorax: the anterior angles of the prothorax acute; the metathorax not toothed; the apex truncate, the truncation finely rugose; wings subhyaline, faintly yellow; the nervures pale testaceous. Abdomen globose; the scale quadrate, with two very stout, short, curved spines above; the insect is very thinly covered with a fine short silky ashy pile, most apparent on the abdomen.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Polyrhachis

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