Oecodoma nigra

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 186

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6297300

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9E49DE74-1D46-EBBE-403C-44175DFBE464

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scientific name

Oecodoma nigra
status

 

12. Oecodoma nigra   HNS . B.M.

Female. Length 6 lines. - Black: the mandibles ferruginous, longitudinally striated, and having two blunt teeth at their apex, their base, outer margins and apex black; two longitudinal carinae on the front, which run irregularly and obliquely to the lateral posterior angles of the head, each carina is elevated into a spine or tooth opposite the eyes; the head is longitudinally strigose, and has a number of short spines at the posterior angles.- Thorax: a short curved spine on each side in front, and two rather longer curved ones on the metathorax; the meso- ' thorax and scutellum longitudinally covered with a series of irregular carinae; the legs covered with short brown pubescence, the tarsi obscurely ferruginous. Abdomen globose, covered with irregular points and tubercles; the first node of the peduncle quadrate, and having a number of short points or tubercles; the second node transverse, and similarly tuberculate.

Hab. Brazil; Rio (Tejuca). (Coll. Rev. Hamlet Clark.)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Oecodoma

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