Polyrhachis abdominalis

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 63

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6296449

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scientific name

Polyrhachis abdominalis
status

 

20. Polyrhachis abdominalis   LSID . B.M.

Worker. Length 3 1/2 lines.-Head, thorax and legs black; abdomen ferruginous. Head and thorax opake, very delicately shagreened, the sides of the thorax and the legs with a slight rusty-red appearance; the anterior margin of the clypeus rounded; the eyes pale reddish-brown. Thorax armed in front with two long straight spines, directed obliquely forwards; the pro- and metathorax slightly convex, not margined laterally above; the metathorax with the lateral margins raised, longitudinally concave above, and terminating on each side in a long, straight, slightly divergent spine, the spines obscurely ferruginous at the apex. Abdomen subglobose, the scale of the peduncle incrassate, and with two long acute curved spines above.

Hab. Burmah.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Polyrhachis

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