Odontomachus tyrannicus

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 : 44

publication ID

2596

publication LSID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6295587

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B900DB7F-51D7-4308-C4BF-7AEA57E73A65

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scientific name

Odontomachus tyrannicus
status

 

3. Odontomachus tyrannicus View in CoL   HNS .

0. ferrugineus, laevis nitidus; thorace oblongo, metathorace transversus striata; abdominis pedun-culo unispinoso.

Worker. Length 4 lines to the tips of the inaudibles. Ferruginous, very smooth and shining; the head widest at the insertion of the eyes, more than usually so; the usual deep depressions between the eyes and the prominence at the sides of which the antennae are inserted very smooth without the faintest striation, the prominence slightly striated longitudinally; the head deeply emarginate behind; the mandibles finely serrated on their inner margins, and terminating in two stout teeth, which form a fork abruptly bent inwards. The antennae and legs of a paler colour than the body; the metathorax transversely striated, the mesothorax above longitudinally so; the spine on the node of the peduncle of the abdomen short and acute. (Pl. I. fig. 4.)

Hab. Celebes.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Odontomachus

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