Atta hostilis

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 165-166

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6297180

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/014564B0-1045-5669-026C-ED3C7F7FFAF3

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scientific name

Atta hostilis
status

 

17. Atta hostilis View in CoL   HNS . B.M.

Worker. Length 1 1/2 line.-Ferruginous, with the abdomen fuscous, or sometimes black; the thorax, legs and antennae paler than the head, slightly pubescent. Head enormously large, shining, deeply emarginate behind, with a central longitudinal channel, the face striated anteriorly; the mandibles very stout, their inner margin not toothed. Thorax rounded in front, narrowed behind, and deeply strangulated between the meso- and metathorax, the latter with two minute acute spines. Abdomen ovate.

Female. Length 3 1/4 lines.-Fusco-ferruginous and shining: the head ferruginous and longitudinally striated; the legs and antennal pale; wings subhyaline and iridescent, the nervures pale testaceous, the metathorax with two short acute spines.

Hab. Port Natal.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

SubFamily

Attidae

Genus

Atta

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