Polyrhachis equinus

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 66

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6296469

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Polyrhachis equinus
status

 

29. POLYRHACHIS EQUINUS   LSID .

Worker. Length 3 lines.-Black and shining: the thorax flattened above, the metathorax and the scale of the petiole bispinose, the legs pale ferruginous. Head shining and delicately rugulose; the palpi pale testaceous. Thorax with the lateral margins acutely edged, the sides of the thorax delicately striated, the prothorax above slightly concave and horseshoe-shaped; the metathorax also slightly concave, with the posterior angles acute and elevated, the metathorax smooth and shining behind. Abdomen globose, smooth and shining; the scale of the peduncle elevated, with two stout teeth above, the sides oblique; the scale is narrowest at its base.

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Polyrhachis

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