Myrmecia crudelis

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 147

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6297042

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Myrmecia crudelis
status

 

12. Myrmecia crudelis   HNS . B.M.

Worker. Length 7 lines.-Black: the clypeus and mandibles yellow, with the teeth and apex of the latter ferruginous; the antennae and tarsi pale ferruginous; the femora and tibiae dark rufo-piceous; the head longitudinally rugose. Thorax with obscure ferruginous tints, the prothorax with a curved transverse striation, the meso- and metathorax transversely and coarsely striated. The first node of the petiole slightly roughened, the second and the abdomen smooth and shining.

Female.-This sex only differs in the usual sexual characters, the thorax being elongate-ovate, and not strangulated in the middle.

Hab. Adelaide.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Myrmecia

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