Formica stricta

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 16

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6296071

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Formica stricta
status

 

57. Formica stricta View in CoL   LSID . B.M.

Formica stricta, Jerdon   LSID , Madr. Journ. Lit. & Sc. (1851) 123 [[worker]]; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. xiii. 105. 37.

Smith, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 53. 3.

Hab. India (Malabar); Borneo (Sarawak).

The insect which I take to be the F. stricta   LSID has the head square, or rather oblong; the insect is of an obscure blackishgreen and covered with cinereous pile; the eyes are placed high at the sides of the head; the face from the base of the clypeus is obliquely truncated, the truncation being roughly striated; the thorax is narrowed posteriorly, and the metathorax has two little points or tubercles, one on each side; the scale of the peduncle is raised, incrassate, rounded and emarginate above; the legs shining black. The small worker has the head rounder, not truncated in front.

The female has the head truncated in front; the thorax and the abdomen elongate-ovate, the former smooth and shining above; the wings subhyaline, the nervures testaceous, with a narrow fuscous stain running along the course of the nervures; the insect tinged with green, the abdomen covered with glittering cinereous pile.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Formica

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