Meranoplus mucronatus

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 194

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6297382

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Meranoplus mucronatus
status

 

4. Meranoplus mucronatus View in CoL   HNS . B.M.

Worker. Length 2 - 2 1/2 lines. - Head, thorax and legs ferru- ginous, the abdomen black; the thorax quadrate, each angle produced into a long acute spine; the head, thorax, and nodes of the peduncle coarsely rugose; the head narrowed before the eyes, and widely emarginate in front; the eyes prominent, be- hind them the margins of the head are widened, and again nar- rowed to the lateral angles, which are rounded; the head and thorax with a few scattered long reddish hairs. The hinder mar- gin of the thorax with two short blunt spines in the middle, outside of each is a very minute tooth or spine; the metathorax smooth, shining, and concavely truncate; in the middle of the lateral margins of the truncation is a long slender acute spine; the legs and abdomen sprinkled with very long ferruginous hairs.

Hab. Malacca (Mount Ophir).

On a ticket attached to specimens of this species, Mr. Wallace writes, "House-Ant," but we have no further information.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Meranoplus

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