Polyrhachis democles

Smith, F., 1861, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the Islands of Ceram, Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 6, pp. 36-48 : 40

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2596

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6295553

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scientific name

Polyrhachis democles
status

 

11. Polyrhachis democles   HNS .

P. niger, aureo-sericeo vestitus; tho-race ovato, metathorace spinis duabus brevibus obtusis; squama spinis duabus acutis armata. -

Female. Length 3 1 / 2 lines. Black, covered with golden pubescent pile, the head and thorax thinly so. The thorax ovate; the verge of the truncation of the metathorax notched, the lateral angles forming short blunt spines; the node of the peduncle with two acute short spines, and in the middle of its upper margin with a notch, the angles of which are slightly elevated, forming two minute teeth or spines; the abdomen globose; the legs black and shining. (Pl. I. fig. 9.)

Hab. Celebes (Tondano).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Polyrhachis

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