Myrmica longipes

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 126

48. Myrmica longipes .

Worker. Length 2 1/2 lines.-Dark brown: head much wider than the thorax, narrowed behind the eyes and prolonged into a short neck; antennae longer than the body and very slender; the scape and also the flagellum slightly thickened towards their apex. Head much wider than the thorax, the mandibles rufo-testaceous. Thorax: the prothorax elongate, prolonged into a neck, the meso- and metathorax divided by a deep strangulation, the metathorax with two minute upright spines. Abdomen ovate; the peduncle elongate, formed of two nodes, the first smaller than the second and less elevated, both having a short footstalk.

Hab. Borneo 5 Singapore. (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)