Ponera pallidipennis

Smith, F., 1860, Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at Celebes. (Part Formicidae), Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 5, pp. 57-93 : 73

6. Ponera pallidipennis .

P. nigra opaca; abdomine lævigato, nitido, chalybeo-iridescente ; antennis pedibusque obscure ferrugineis .

Male. Length 3 lines. Black; the head and thorax finely rugose and opake, the metathorax coarsely rugose ; the scape and basal joint of the flagellum bright ferruginous, the following joints obscurely so. Wings colourless, with the nervures pale testaceous, the stigma pale brown ; the legs fusco-ferruginous, with the articulations and the tarsi pale rufo-testaeeous. Abdomen smooth and shining, with a blue iridescence, the tip pale testaceous.

Hab. Makassar.