Ponera carbonaria

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 97

50. Ponera carbonaria .

Worker. Length 4 1/2 lines.-Jet-black, shining and impunctate: mandibles obscurely ferruginous, with seven or eight strong teeth on their inner margin; the head, thorax and abdomen with a thin short yellowish pubescence; the tip of the antennae ferruginous. Thorax elongate, narrowed posteriorly, the apex obliquely truncated; the calcaria and claw-joint of the tarsi rufotestaceous. Abdomen: the node of the peduncle incrassate, vertical in front and obliquely curved behind; the extreme apex of the abdomen rufo-testaceous.

Hab. South America (Quito). (Coll. F. Smith.)

This species resembles P. inversa , particularly in the form of the node of the peduncle; but the latter species has the head striated, the thorax punctured, the prothorax flattened above, and the legs and base of the abdomen more or less ferruginous.