Polyrhachis laboriosus

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 72

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6296511

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3A8CB362-0B48-2B79-A41B-C1448AAB2B48

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scientific name

Polyrhachis laboriosus
status

 

49. Polyrhachis laboriosus View in CoL   LSID . Pl. IV. figs. 21,22. B.M.

Worker. Length 4 lines.-Black: the abdomen covered with fine, short, golden pubescence. The anterior margin of the clypeus rounded, and having a slight carina down the middle; the mandibles short, triangular, and armed with five acute, ferruginous teeth; the palpi dark fusco-ferruginous; the head is finely longitudinally rugose, and thinly covered with cinereous pubescence. Thorax armed in front with two long acute spines, above, slightly concave, with the lateral margins forming a sharp raised carina, the disk with a little golden pubescence, which is frequently obliterated, the sides with a thin cinereous pubescence. Abdomen subglobose, the node of the peduncle with two long, erect, hooked spines directed backwards.

Hab. Sierra Leone. (Coll. Rev. D. F. Morgan.)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Polyrhachis

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