Polyrhachis piliventris

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 60

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6296423

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3E11F479-5046-BD32-180F-D06B0FACA65B

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scientific name

Polyrhachis piliventris
status

 

9. Polyrhachis piliventris View in CoL   LSID . Pl. IV. fig. 24. B.M.

Female. Length 3 1/4 lines. -Black: the head and thorax subrugose; abdomen smooth, shining, and covered with a fine cinereous pile. The mandibles triangular, with four or five sharp teeth on the inner edge which are rufo-piceous; the anterior margin of the clypeus rounded. Thorax oblong-ovate, the metathorax truncate; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures rufo-testaceous; the apical joints of the tarsi rufo-testaceous. The scale of the abdomen incrassate, subquadrate, with a stout spine at each of the superior angles, curving slightly inwards. Abdomen subglobose.

Hab. Singapore. (Coll. A. Wallace.)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Polyrhachis

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