Polyrhachis villipes

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 67

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6296479

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/789B576B-DB8F-4AAD-2F28-F4626269A995

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Donat

scientific name

Polyrhachis villipes
status

 

33. Polyrhachis villipes View in CoL   LSID . Pl. IV. figs. 37, 38. B.M.

Worker. Length 3 1/2 - 4 lines.-Black: the head and thorax longitudinally delicately aciculate; eyes ovate, very prominent, situated high on the sides of the head, the head narrowed posteriorly, the carinae much elevated on the face, the palpi pale rufo-testaceous. Thorax armed in front with two long, acute, divergent spines, not armed posteriorly; the superior surface flattened, distinctly divided by two transverse sutures, and having a curved decline to the verge of the truncation of the metathorax; legs elongate, thinly covered with erect pubescence. Abdomen smooth and shining, sprinkled with erect black hairs; the peduncle, viewed in front, subquadrate, narrowed to the base, the superior lateral angles with long, stout, diverging, acute spines; there is also a minute spine at the side, a little beneath the elongate ones.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Polyrhachis

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