Methoca thoracica, Latreille

Smith, F., 1861, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the Islands of Ceram, Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 6, pp. 36-48 : 50-51

publication ID

2596

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:478E0DB4-21A2-4A50-B59D-774B53696A70

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6295647

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Methoca thoracica
status

 

1. Methoca thoracica   HNS .

M. rufo-ferruginea; capite abdominisque fasciis tribus nigris.

Female. Length 4 lines. Rufo-ferruginous; the head black, the abdomen with three black fasciae, very smooth and shining; the mandibles, clypeus, and antennae ferruginous. (Pl. I. fig. 5. [[ queen ]].) Hab. Celebes (Tondano).

This very beautiful insect may probably be a very large, highly coloured form of if. insularis   HNS , described in a previous paper; but not having any intermediate in size, I have thought it advisable to describe it as a distinct species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Mutillidae

Genus

Methoca

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