Tapinoma glabrata

Smith, F., 1857, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2, pp. 42-88 : 58

1. Tapinoma glabrata .

T. nigra, subnitida, glabra, angustior; antennis, mandibulis tarsisque rufo-pallidis; squama oblonga depressa; abdomine oblongo-ovato.

Worker. Length 1 1/2 line. Black: the clypeus obscurely testaceous; the mandibles and flagellum rufo-testaceous, the apex of the latter slightly fuscous; the head, prothorax, and coxae beneath, rufo-testaceous; the thorax declining above to the base of the metathorax, the latter convex; the tarsi pale rufo-testaceous. Abdomen ovate; the scale inclining forwards in a line with the oblique truncation of the metathorax; the insect entirely destitute of pubescence.

Hab. Malacca.