Polyrhachis longipes

Smith, F., 1859, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at the Islands of Aru and Key., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 3, pp. 132-158 : 140

5. Polyrhachis longipes .

P. niger; flagelli dimidio apicali tibiisque anticis pallide ferrugineis, prothorace petiolique squamula bidentatis.

Worker. Length 3 lines. Black; the head and thorax finely rugose; the antennae elongate, longer than the insect; the apical half of the flagellum pale ferruginous. Thorax rounded above, the sides not margined; two spines on the thorax anteriorly, two on the metathorax, and two on the scale of the petiole; the legs elongate, with the anterior tibiae ferruginous. Abdomen globose, sometimes rufofuscous, or the base obscurely rufous.

Hab. Aru.