Ponera laeviceps

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 90

publication ID

8127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6296634

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Ponera laeviceps
status

 

25. Ponera laeviceps View in CoL   HNS .

Worker. Length 3 lines.-Black, smooth and shining: the head elongate, with a few striae on each side of the clypeus; the latter triangular, with a central longitudinal raised carina; above the clypeus a central impressed line runs half way towards the posterior margin of the vertex. Thorax narrowed into a short neck in front, behind which it is swollen, thence it is compressed and narrowed to the apex, which is oblique and transversely rugose; the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen: a deep strangulation between the first and second segments; the node of the peduncle rounded and elevated.

Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Ponera

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