Polyrhachis equinus

Smith, F., 1857, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2, pp. 42-88 : 63

publication ID

2588

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6297608

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scientific name

Polyrhachis equinus
status

 

18. Polyrhachis equinus   HNS .

P. niger nitidus; thorace supra deplanato, metathorace et pedunculo bispinosis, pedibus pallide ferrugineis.

Worker. Length 3 lines. Black; head shining and delicately rugulose; the palpi pale rufo-testaceous. Thorax: flattened above, the margins acutely edged; the sides longitudinally delicately striated; the prothorax, above, slightly concave, and shaped like a horse-shoe; the metathorax is also slightly concave, with the posterior angles acute and elevated; the metathorax smooth and shining behind; the legs rufo-testaceous. Abdomen: smooth, shining and subglobose; the scale elevated, with two short teeth above, the sides oblique; the scale narrowing to its base. Hab. Sarawak.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Polyrhachis

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