Myrmica domestica

Smith, F., 1851, List of the specimens of British animals in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. - Hymenoptera Aculeata., London: British Museum : 12

Myrmica domestica .

Female (length 13 / 4 line). Pale fulvous, eyes and ocelli black; a short elongate line on the prothorax, a similar one on each side; the scutellum, a stain on the pectus, and sides of the breast brown; a transverse dark brown fascia on the basal segment of the abdomen not quite reaching the apical margin, the remaining segments dark brown, their margins piceous.

Male (length 1 line). Head black, thorax and abdomen nigro-piceous, the legs and antennae pale testaceous, the femora tinged with brown; the wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma very pale testaceous; the abdomen is heart-shaped, rather palest at the base: the metathorax and peduncle of the abdomen beneath without spines in both sexes.