Formica picipes

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 49-50

170. Formica picipes . B.M.

Formica picipes, Oliv. Encycl. Meth. vi. 501.

Latr. Hist. Nat. Fourm. 107. pl. iii. f. 16 [[worker]].

Hab. South America.

The insect which we suppose to be the female of this species, is from Santarem; it very closely resembles the F. ligniperda ; the flagellum, legs, thorax beneath, pale ferruginous; in some specimens the metathorax is also pale, others have also the prothorax pale, and two pale longitudinal stripes on the disk of the thorax; the base of the abdomen is usually pale, as well as the basal segments beneath; the wings hyaline, with a yellow tinge at the anterior margin of the superior pair, the nervures pale ferruginous.