Formica nigro-aenea

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 40

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6296233

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Formica nigro-aenea
status

 

134. Formica nigro-aenea   LSID . B.M.

Worker. Length 3 1/2 lines.-Black, with a green tinge. Head large, wider than the thorax, emarginate behind; the clypeus subcarinate, its anterior margin slightly notched in the middle; mandibles obscurely ferruginous, punctured and strongly dentate within. Thorax short, rounded in front, much narrowed behind, terminating almost in a point at the verge of the truncation of the metathorax; the apical joints of the tarsi obscurely rufo-piceous. Abdomen ovate, thinly covered with fine silky pale yellow pubescence 5 the margins of the segments thinly fringed with pale glittering yellow hairs, a few hairs of the same colour sprinkled over the head and thorax; scale subovate, small, rounded above.

Hab. Melbourne.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Formica

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