Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae.
Author
Smith, F.
text
1858
British Museum
London
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book
8127
Genus 2.
TAPINOMA
.
Formica
, pt., Latr. Hist. Nat. Fourm. 182 (1802).
Tapinoma
, Foerst. Hym. Stud. 43 (1850).
Ocelli obliterated in the workers, present in the males and females; the scale of the petiole flattened, decumbent, usually received into an impressed fovea at the base of the abdomen; the thorax deeply impressed between the meso- and metathorax, the latter obliquely truncated; wings as in the second division of
Formica
.