Formica virescens

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 29-30

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8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6296159

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scientific name

Formica virescens
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97.. Formica virescens   LSID . Pl. III. figs. 24-27. B.M.

Formica virescens, Fabr.   LSID Syst. Eut. 392. 9 [[worker]]; Spec. Ins. i. 490.

13; Mant. Ins. i. 308. 16; Ent. Syst. ii. 355. 23; and Cab.

Mus. Dom. Banks.

Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vi. 494. 20.

Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Ins. ii. 2800. 32.

Formica longinoda, Latr.   LSID Hist. Nat. Fourm. 184 [[worker]].

Lasius virescens, Fabr.   LSID Syst. Piez. 417. 8,

Formica macra, Guer.   LSID Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. 202; Atlas, t. 8. f. 1,

1 a, 1 b [[worker]].

This species we consider to be the African and Australian representative of the F. smaragdina   LSID ; the species is rather smaller, the female has shorter wings, the nervures blacker, and with a fuscous stain along their course; it also differs from F. smaragdina in having the scale or node of the abdomen rather longer, and in its being elevated anteriorly. The worker of F. virescens   LSID has the head more convex behind the eyes than in F. smaragdina   LSID , and the petiole of the abdomen is shorter, and of a somewhat different form.

The male of F. virescens   LSID is 3 lines in length, of a pale rufo-testaceous colour, varying in depth in different specimens, and is covered with short thin pale pubescence; the head with the vertex subquadrate, slightly narrowed posteriorly, with the angles rounded; the eyes larger than in the female; the first joint of the flagellum clavate, nearly as long as the two following, the rest being subovate and of nearly equal length. Thorax subovate, narrowed posteriorly; the wings ample, hyaline, with the nervures ferruginous. The legs very slender and elongate. Abdomen rounded, the petiole narrowed at the base.

Hab. Africa; Australia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Formica

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