Polyrhachis furcatus

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 64

publication ID

8127

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C86CFDBF-61D9-48EE-9C2E-325FC0462B10

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6296457

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE980B8D-D638-75D4-3DD6-4D3819A5C81C

treatment provided by

Donat

scientific name

Polyrhachis furcatus
status

 

24. Polyrhachis furcatus View in CoL   LSID . Pl. IV. fig. 20. B.M.

Worker. Length 2 1/4 lines.-Head and thorax black; abdomen and legs rufo-testaceous. Head smooth, shining and impunctate; the anterior margin of the clypeus rounded; the mandibles triangular, their inner margin denticulate; antennae with the scape black, the flagellum rufo-testaceous, the basal joints fuscous. Thorax coarsely rugose, armed on each side anteriorly with a long, stout, slightly curved, acute spine; the metathorax with two long, stout, bent, slightly divergent, acute spines. Abdomen smooth, shining and subglobose, the peduncle with a sort of elevated pedestal, from the summit of which are produced two elongate spines, hooked and acute at their apex.

Hab. Burmah.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Polyrhachis

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