Polyrhachis diaphantus

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

publication ID

2596

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6295559

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Polyrhachis diaphantus
status

 

14. Polyrhachis diaphantus   HNS .

P. niger et vestitus pube argentea; thorace quadrispinoso; petioli squamula bispinosa.

Worker. Length 2 1 / 3 lines. Black, and densely clothed with silky silvery pile; the flagellum has the tips of the basal joints, and six or seven of the apical joints entirely ferruginous; the thorax convex above, the anterior spines short, stout, and acute; the metathorax with two very stout, acute divergent spines; the node of the petiole with two long spines very stout, acute, and curving round the base of the abdomen; the abdomen globose. The anterior tibiae obscurely ferruginous, their base black. (Pl. I. fig. 12.) Hab. Celebes (Tondano).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Polyrhachis

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