Myrmica virulens
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Myrmica virulens |
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71. Myrmica virulens View in CoL HNS . B.M.
Worker. Length 2 lines.-Pale reddish-yellow, very smooth
and shining, and thinly sprinkled with erect pale hairs: the club 2-jointed; the vertex faintly depressed in the middle. Thorax deeply strangulated in the middle, the prothorax depressed in the middle. Abdomen: the first node incrassate, rounded above, less elevated and smaller than the second, subglobose.
Hab. Brazil (Ega).
This species is allied to M. saevissima HNS . Mr. Bates says, " It is found only in the forest: its formicarium is in the earth, under vegetable debris. Its sting is still more painful than that of M. saevissima HNS ."
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