Ponera laevigata

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 98

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6296688

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scientific name

Ponera laevigata
status

 

52. Ponera laevigata   HNS . B.M.

Worker. Length 4 lines.-Jet-black, highly polished and impunctate: the tibiae, tarsi, antennae and mandibles ferruginous, the antennae more or less dusky; the mandibles with seven or eight fine teeth, and very smooth and shining. Thorax elongate; the metathorax obliquely truncate, the sides finely striated. Abdomen: a deep strangulation between the first and second segments, the apex rufo-piceous; the node of the peduncle incrassate, elevated to the height of the first segment, and rounded above; the abdomen thinly sprinkled with pale hairs.

Hab. Brazil (Ega.) (Coll. H. W. Bates.)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Ponera

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