Ponera pedunculata

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 96

46. Ponera pedunculata . Pl. VI. fig. 25. B.M.

Worker. Length 6 1/2 lines. -Black: covered with a pale goldenyellow pubescence; the head rather wider than the thorax; the mandibles produced forwards, forming an elongated triangle, their inner edge serrated; the antennae nearly as long as the thorax. Thorax: the disk somewhat flattened anteriorly, with the angles of the anterior margin acute; the meso- and metathorax pinched above, forming a central sharp edge down the middle above; the apex of the metathorax obliquely truncated; the calcar at the apex of the tibiae pale testaceous. Abdomen: the node of the peduncle incrassate, its anterior margin vertical, from the apex of which it is gradually rounded behind to its base; a deep strangulation between the first and second segments, the apex of the abdomen acute.

Hab. Brazil. Rio (Constantia).

Specimens of this species have the golden pubescence usually more or less obliterated.