Polyrhachis valerus

Smith, F., 1861, Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the Islands of Ceram, Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 6, pp. 36-48 : 40

12. Polyrhachis valerus .

P. capite abdomineque nigris; thorace, squama femoribusque rufis; thorace quadrispinoso; petioli squamula bispinosa.

Worker. Length 3 1 / 4 lines. Black, with the thorax, scale of the petiole, the coxa;, trochanters and femora ferruginous; the head opake, the face with short cinereous pubescence. The thorax with a thin shining cinereous pile; the spines on the thorax in front short, stout, and acute; the metathorax with two long slightly divergent spines directed backwards and tipt with black; the node of the peduncle with two long acute spines directed backwards over the base of the abdomen, their apex black. Abdomen globose and covered with silky pile, the extreme base, ferruginous. (Pl. I. fig. 10.)

Hab. Celebes (Tondano).