Formica nana

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 41-42

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6296245

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Formica nana
status

 

140. Formica nana View in CoL   LSID .

Worker. Length 2 1/2 lines.-Black: the mandibles and antenna ferruginous, the abdomen covered with golden pubescence. Head: the anterior margin of the clypeus and the sides of the head anteriorly, ferraginous; the clypeus with a central longitudinal carina, the head thinly covered with golden pubescence.

Thorax rounded in front and narrowed posteriorly; the apical joints of the tarsi ferruginous, covered thinly with golden pubescence. Abdomen subovate, covered with short golden pubescence, and thinly sprinkled with long golden-coloured hairs; the node of the peduncle incrassate, narrow, oblong-quadrate, with the margin above rounded.

Hab. Brazil. (Coll. D. Swainson, Esq.)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Formica

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