Ponera Aethiopica

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 91

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6296644

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BC79F14B-1C91-89FC-63E3-53248FD8C08E

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scientific name

Ponera Aethiopica
status

 

30. Ponera Aethiopica   HNS . Pl. VI. figs. 19, 20. B.M.

Worker. Length 8 lines.-Black: the head and thorax opake, the abdomen shining; the mandibles ferruginous, with the base black, their apex acute, the inner margin not toothed. Thorax rounded and swollen in front, compressed behind; the anterior tarsi clothed with ferruginous pubescence beneath; the extreme apex of the femora and the tibiae and tarsi obscurely rufopiceous. Abdomen ovate, slightly constricted at the apex of the first segment; the node of the peduncle compressed, much elevated, rounded in front and truncate behind; the truncation slightly curved, the apex acute above; the extreme apex of the abdomen and the apical margins of two or three of the basal segments narrowly rufo-piceous.

Hab. South Africa.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Ponera

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