Meranoplus gracilis

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 194-195

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6297386

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Meranoplus gracilis
status

 

6. Meranoplus gracilis   HNS . B.M.

Worker. Length 2 1/4 lines. - Black: head convex, subopake, and finely punctured; eyes large, prominent, placed forwards on the sides of the head, the posterior angles rounded; the clypeus concave, or depressed in the middle, its anterior margin widely but slightly emarginate. Thorax longitudinally rugose, inter- mixed with deep punctures, elongate and narrowed to the base of the mesothorax; the anterior margin of the prothorax arched, with the lateral angles subacute; the posterior lateral angles of the mesothorax tuberculate; the metathorax with the basal late- ral angles rounded, and the apical ones produced into long stout acute spines. Abdomen ovate; the first node of the peduncle rugose, much narrower than the second, which is truncate at the base, rounded at the sides and behind.

Hab. Brazil (Ega). (Coll. H. W. Bates.)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Meranoplus

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