Formica? erythrocephala
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124. Formica? erythrocephala View in CoL LSID . B.M.
Formica erythrocephala, Fabr. LSID Ent. Syst. ii. 351. 6.
Atta erythrocephala, Fabr. LSID Syst. Piez. 423. 5.
Hab. New Holland.
The typical specimen of the species is in the Banksian Collection; it is a very slender, attenuated form of a worker ant; the head is a little wider than the prothorax, elongate, and of a bloodred colour; the antennae red, with the scape obscurely so; the mandibles porrect and finely denticulate on their inner edge. Thorax elongate, narrowed towards the head; the legs elongate, slender, and with the knees and tarsi red. The abdomen small, ovate, and subpetiolate; the scale of the peduncle small, incrassate, rounded in front, and truncate behind.
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