Formica ruficeps

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 24

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6296125

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Formica ruficeps
status

 

83. Formica ruficeps View in CoL   LSID .

Worker. Length 4 lines.-Black: the head and the thorax in front ferruginous; the head smooth, shining, and much wider than the thorax; the mandibles and scape black, the apex of the former ferruginous; the flagellum pale rufo-testaceous. The thorax much compressed behind; the tips of the coxae, femora and tibiae, and the tarsi ferruginous. Abdomen smooth and shining; the scale of the peduncle ovate, its apex acuminate; the legs and the apex of the abdomen with a thin short pale pubescence. Worker minor only differs in size and in having the mandibles ferruginous.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Formica

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