Ponera rufipes

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 : 67

publication ID

2588

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6297628

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Ponera rufipes
status

 

6. Ponera rufipes   HNS ,

Jerdon. P. atro-fusca; capite thorace nodoque rugosis; abdomine longitudinaliter rude sulcato, pedibus abdominisque apice ferrugineis.

Worker. Length 5 lines. Obscure fuscous, scarcely black; the mandibles, the apex of the scape and of the flagellum, the legs and apex of the abdomen, obscurely ferruginous; the head, thorax, and node of the abdomen, rugose; the eyes small, placed forwards on the sides of the head; the antennae short and thick, the flagellum clavate; two parallel longitudinal carinae running backwards from the insertion of the antennae to within about one-third of the posterior margin of the head. The thorax obliquely truncated behind, the truncation smooth and slightly shining; the truncation of the abdominal node smooth and shining, its margin denticulated; the abdomen coarsely grooved longitudinally.

Hab. Singapore. Malabar.

Specimens of this species from Borneo have the legs nearly or quite black.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Ponera

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