Polyrhachis Gagates

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 71-72

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6296507

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/92ED8975-FBCB-A7A1-1A28-EB3F68294090

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Donat

scientific name

Polyrhachis Gagates
status

 

47. Polyrhachis Gagates View in CoL   LSID . Pl. IV. fig. 14. B.M.

Worker. Length 3 1/4 -3 1/2 lines.-Jet-black: head and thorax subopake; abdomen very smooth and shining. Head and thorax finely longitudinally rugose and thinly covered with fine, short, cinereous pile; the disk of the thorax flattened, the lateral margins acute; the prothorax with a stout acute spine on each side in front, the divisions of the thorax strongly marked; the posterior angles of the metathorax slightly produced, not spined. The scale of the peduncle incrassate, subquadrate, with a long, stout spine at each of its superior angles, and a short acute one outside beneath them; abdomen globose.

Hab. Port Natal.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Polyrhachis

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