Polyrhachis defensus

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 : 59-60

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2588

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6297578

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scientific name

Polyrhachis defensus
status

 

4. Polyrhachis defensus   HNS .

P. niger; capito thoraceque minute verrucatis, thorace spinis duabus longis antice, duabus postice, armato; abdomine opaco ferrugineo-rufo.

Worker. Length 3 1/2 lines. Head and thorax black, and coarsely shagreened; the thorax armed with two long stout spines at the angles of the prothorax, and two similar ones at the posterior angles of the metathorax; the scale of the abdomen with two long stout spines diverging and curved backwards. Abdomen globose, of a dull opake rusty-red.

Hab. Singapore. Java.

Specimens from Java, in the British Museum, have the abdomen black.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Polyrhachis

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