Formica exasperata

Smith, F., 1857, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2, pp. 42-88 : 56-57

publication ID

2588

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6297556

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A9F9A04C-5941-ACE4-CDA8-B471ED22A84B

treatment provided by

Christiana

scientific name

Formica exasperata
status

 

16. Formica exasperata   HNS .

F. capite thorace abdominisque squama sanguineis; tarsorum unguibus abdominisque basi rufis; thorace compresso.

Worker. Length 5 1/2 lines. Head and thorax blood-red; sometimes blackish before the insertion of the antennae, and also a little in front of the anterior stemma; in some examples entirely red; the mandibles black, stout, strongly toothed and punctured; the head deeply emarginate posteriorly, and much wider than the thorax. Thorax: compressed, sometimes with fuscous stains at the sides, with the tibiae and tarsi more or less fuscous; the head, thorax and legs with a thin scattered pale reddish pubescence. Abdomen: black, subopake, with the apical margins of the segments usually more or less rufopiceous; the scale erect, ovate and entire.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).

The general form of this species is that of F. compressa   HNS ; the antennae are shorter, with shorter joints, and the legs are considerably stouter.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Formica

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF